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I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something in Tso's statement that seems to me to be quite different from yours.

In your example, the fact that the first option is self-evidently correct even in a vacuum, is something of a cue that the second option isn't meant to be taken as seriously.

In Tso's statement, it's not immediately clear to me which of the two options he prefers. In fact, his use of the phrase "get over it" leads me to think that is actually his preferred variant. To me, that phrasing means if not an outright trivial and unworthy concern, then at least one that only needs the passage of time. There doesn't seem to be any indication that he's using the phrase ironically or anything.

Of course it is always possible that I'm just misreading or misinterpreting it. But that is why the first half didn't, and still doesn't, seem relevant to me.




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