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How strong a claim the "what would they have me do" has on your attention has something to do what real living individuals there are behind the fuzzy notion of the group, who could actually be benefitted and harmed by your attention or inattention, and what the power assymmetry is; the ruling elite of the ancient Assyrian empire has a lot less such claim than a contemporary marginalized subculture.
Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006
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But the power assymmetry makes the transaction deeply suspicious.
Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006
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Yes and this reaches a point of absurd assymmetry when your enemy is not in uniform and is sub state and recognises absolutely no human moral or decent laws .
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If no sign of disease or deformity such as skeletal assymmetry is found, and most importantly if they dig up a lot more fossils of people at all stages of life with the same feature, well, then, maybe there was a population of two-headed people around then.
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The assymmetry of his feet say more about the impermanence of life than all the pomp and ritual you'll see this week.
The Pope's Funeral Mumon 2005
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Learning a little bit about errors such as anchoring, recency bias, the assymmetry between our reactions to profits and losses, etc.
BiggerPockets Forums charleshull 2010
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[28] and assymmetry of information between shareholders and managers
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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