Headline undercutting the text

[redbird]

There's an article in today's NY Times Magazine arguing that we shouldn't worry about languages dying out. I disagree with the author, in part because we disagree over the accuracy of translation. The odd thing is that I think an editor there agree with me: the headline is "If all languages are equal, why does it matter when one of them dies?" and my immediate reaction was to substitute "men" for "languages" in that question.

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[calimac.livejournal.com]

Somebody once said that he wasn't bothered by nuclear holocaust, because we've all got to die some time anyway. Same fallacy.