Oystein
Penultimate Amazing
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Put it this way:
When did you stop beating your spouse?
Is there anyone here, poster or lurker or family member of a 9/11 victim, alike, that does not understand that the above "wife-beating" question assumes what has not been proven?
Anyone at all?
The wife-beating proposition is assumed in the question as one cannot stop beating the crap out of a person absent a showing that one was doing so.
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And yet, you can ask me that question, and receive a short, unambiguous, precise and reasoned answer:
"I never stopped beating my spouse because I never had a spouse and never beat a spouse".
There. That was easy. No word salad needed. Just one concise sentence.
Granted, I have not yet provided any prrof that I have never been married, but for the time being we'd be happy if you just answered the question "Where are Ed and Betty if they did not die in plane crashes on 9/11?"
You could try and do the same that I did: Just answer the question concisely! Could be one of the following:
A) "Oh but they did die in those plane crashes, I was only kidding"
B) "Betty and/or Ed never existed" (that would be equivalent to my claim "I never had a spouse")
C) "Betty and/or Ed died before 9/11"
D) "Betty and/or Ed lived after 9/11"
E) "Betty and/or Ed dies on 9/11, but by other means than plane crash"
It has to be one of these. Only takes one sentence, really. Or, well, maybe two, one for Ed, one for Betty.,
Lurkers, do you understand how even questions whose premise you doubt can be answered?