"as we do"
This is from an article and I don't understand the meaning of "as we do" in this sentence below

"It is not easy to say just exactly what goes wrong in this argument, because it's not clear what we mean when we say, as we do, such things as that cutting off a man's head is worse than punching a man in the nose."

Can someone explain please?

Question

"as we do"
This is from an article and I don't understand the meaning of "as we do" in this sentence below

"It is not easy to say just exactly what goes wrong in this argument, because it's not clear what we mean when we say, as we do, such things as that cutting off a man's head is worse than punching a man in the nose."

Can someone explain please?

Answer

" as we do" is emphasising that we do indeed say such things

eg
"when we look at our phones every 5 minutes, as we do...".= this is emphasising that we do actually look at our phones every 5 minutes, and someone isn't just making this up
 
It's a little hard to explain. You could remove it and the sentence would still make perfect sense.

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yaptığımız gibi

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