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The right’s definition of freedom, however, isn’t one that, say, F.D.R. would recognize. What Krugman (or "Krud-man" or whatever) is saying here is that definitions are subjective, rather than being morally-necessary, contextually-absolute statements about the relations between different facts of reality. On his view, thinking is like going to Burger King: You get to have it your way. It is mind-over-matter in the literal sense (i.e., the "nonsense" sense).
Here's his thinking:
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Do you dislike something on earth?
Then simply re-define it!
Yeah!
Do you dislike poison?
Then simply re-define it as "food" (and everything is sure to work out just fine if you decide to do that).
In fact, everything can be anything you "want" it to be!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooo! It is fun being intellectually irresponsible! There is nothing that can ever go wrong when people, including people who write columns, adopt that as a habit!
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Ed
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