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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
I think you've just summed up the intransigence of some on the leave side quite well - play down the risks as 'potential' but no such uncertainty about the benefits. In 2016 I voted knowing the risks and potential benefits and I'm getting pretty fed up being grouped with the hard liners. I think many people had their own reasons for voting the way they did which are not the same as yours. To use your phrase from above - I know that's hard to believe but it's true.
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Re my comment the other day, the intransigence in this debate, on this forum at least, is evidenced to a great extent by people’s determination to read whatever they want/expect to read into any given text.
The natural reading of “potential risks and benefits” is that the qualifying adjective, “potential”, applies to both the abstract nouns, “risks” and “benefits”. I could have written “potential risks and potential benefits” but that would have been needlessly clumsy.
That you read it as only applying to the word that you perceive as attacking your position, and not applying to the word that you perceive as a defence of mine, says more about your mind set than it does anything else.