What if you convince everyone that you're a good parent while poisoning your child?
Quite. Those were all intended to be bad arguments. Bad at a caricature level of badness. But Poe's law, I guess.
Oops, my fail. I thought you were saying 'there's nothing special about the law'.
But surely art really is about convincing other human beings that you've made art. What on earth else is going on?
And I reckon that there are aspects of law that aren't covered, but a barrister who can't convince is completely useless in court.
Off to update my estimate of my own written-irony perception skills.
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are:
And one new rule: