Re: OT: Wildepad

Wildepad wrote:

> The fact that it's in this thread is perversely apt because the
> pattern does repeat -- 
> 
> I pose a scenario and ask a question within that framework.
>  
> Rather than answering the question, someone gives their shallow,
> knee-jerk reaction to an aspect of the scenario, usually because it
> does not fit their personal opinions or prejudices, whether that
> aspect, as they see it, actually exists or is at all important.

Once again:  You.  Do.  Not.  Own.  These.  Threads.  When you propose 
one of your silly scenarios and demand unquestioned obedience to your 
premises, no one is required to oblige.

What you're calling "personal opinions and prejudices" are actually 
basic logic, common sense, and the laws of physics.  When your defenses 
inevitably get more and more ridiculously wrong, that's a good 
indication that the people who are suggesting that your scenario is, 
well, rather ridiculous, aren't doing it just because they're jerks. 
It's because, yes, your scenario really is that ridiculous.

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