• unfreeradical@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Your point is that if you needed surgery, then you would want it performed other than by a cook with a dirty spatula.

      Your point is meaningless.

      No one suggested that someone performing surgery would not be properly trained.

      • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        1 year ago

        That wasn’t my point because i didn’t say that. I was explaining that the person who did was only describing how having more or less skill is true using that scenario.

        • unfreeradical@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Skill is not a quantity.

          You identified as a quantity duration of time invested training.

          You conflated an item with one of its attributes.

          • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 year ago

            You can have a quantity of skill.

            Skill is not a requirement for justice, nor is it something that should be denied from workers.

            • unfreeradical@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              Skill is not a quantity, nor is it quantifiable, and your further objection embodies a straw man attack.

                • unfreeradical@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Does an apprentice in a trade have more skill or less in his trade than a master in another trade?

                  Again, skills differ qualitatively.

                  At best one may conceive as a quantity a particular kind of skill, but not skill generally.