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This is an English subtlety. There is an implied negation of the other condition and an implied independence.

“If my wife tells me to eat cauliflower I will. If you tell me to, I won’t.”

A literal interpretation is that if you tell me to eat cauliflower I will avoid cauliflower altogether. The natural English interpretation translates to “Your endorsement of cauliflower will mean nothing to my choice of action”. Funny, eh?



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