# What is Diogenes the Cynic's Condition Called

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 17, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-diogenes-the-cynics-condition-called/571709 "2011-02-17T16:19:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-diogenes-the-cynics-condition-called/571709/15 "2011-02-17T17:42:05Z")

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> [@RaftPeople](#):
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> The point isn’t about his opinion. That’s fine, everyone has an opinion.
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> It’s regarding the lack of logic displayed at various points in the thread, some posted in this thread.

What opinion? I didn’t say anything about any opinion, only a very simple and obvious matter of fact.

I don’t think you even understand what “logic” means. The statements quoted above may be _false_, but they are not illogical. **Dio** is being relentlessly logical in that thread, based on his premise that the laws on the books regarding speed limits are black and white and no one has any business going beyond them. That premise may be faulty, but that doesn’t make his conclusions illogical. Your beef is actually that you want him to be _less_ logical, and to concede that it is better to follow some fuzzy conventions that “everybody knows” than to insist on a strict, literal reading of the speed laws.

> [@enipla](#):
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> Nope. That is not the situation that everyone is talking about. We are also talking about times when the person is going below the speed limit.

It doesn’t matter what “everyone” is talking about, **Dio** was specifically talking about this situation:

> [@What do you do about people blocking the passing lane?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-do-about-people-blocking-the-passing-lane/571476/54):
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> You don’t have a right to go faster than the speed limit. If the person in front of you is already going the limit, you have no legal right to pass them. Why do so may people seem to think that other people are obligated to help them break the law?

Nothing he subsequently added went beyond this situation.

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