At this point you're just responding to every answer to "what would you do?" by inventing another scenario designed to make it fail, and asking the same question again. But these scenarios, like the excuses of the man who claims to have a dragon in his garage, are raised to your attention not by reality, but by the task of finding a way around the answers you have received. There is no end to this process, because for every plan, the outcome pump in your head can imagine a way it could fail.

It is futile to engage in this any further.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 22 May 2015 01:06:23PM -1 points [-]

That's the point.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 22 May 2015 01:13:54PM 1 point [-]

That's the point.

That point being, it appears, "HEY GUYS I TRIED TO PISS YOU OFF AND YOU GOT PISSED OFF I WINZ0RZ HAHAHA L00K @ ALL MY DOWNVOTZ!1!!".

Comment author: OrphanWilde 22 May 2015 01:44:02PM -1 points [-]

The point was to explicate an issue with a fallacy.

I do find the anger about it mildly amusing, because it is coming entirely from people whose reaction to a hypothetical was to immediately dissect and reject it, then get annoyed when I continued to insist that the hypothetical held as-is.

That was the extent of my "trolling", to insist that the hypothetical held as-is, and to mark it as a loss when they continued to reject it - the extent of their losing was merely the degree to which they continued to insist that the real issue was that the subject in the hypothetical was doing what the hypothetical explicitly said they were not doing - making inaccurate predictions.

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