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Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Sonya: Anyone who lives without constant awareness of the fragility an

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Think of it this way. The author is describing a kind of awareness, and showing what happens if you do or don't have that kind of awareness. This is a binary situation: everyone either DOES or DOES NOT have the kind of awareness described, just like everyone either MEETS or DOES NOT MEET the listed requirements for a job. If you are missing one piece of the awareness, then you're in the DOES NOT category. You can't have an awareness of X and Y if you aren't aware of Y. In conditional logic terms, you could say ~Y -> ~(X+Y).

Also, I wouldn't be too quick to split the awareness into two types, anyway. That's partly because the author didn't do so--they described one awareness of two things--but also because the ideas are very highly related. In this context, "fragility" and "precariousness" are practically synonyms. In both cases, they imply that human life is easily ended, so it would be hard to make a case that we needed to consider people who were
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