Thoughts on redundancy aside, using or in this phrase seems wrong to me. Should it not be and? My reasoning is this: There are only two possibilities on the actions concerning X -- either X will be done, or it will not be done. This is binary logic. Using and would indicate that I may do X, and I may not do X -- all the possibilities are covered -- whereas using or lends the implication that there are some other possibilities for your actions concerning X (when there are none).
I know mathematical logic doesn't map perfectly to natural language, but and seems much more correct to me. So why is the expression used with or?
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