• agamemnonymous
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      5 months ago

      Yes, which is why I phrased my statement as “Well, … could…” to indicate an alternative perspective. This was to illustrate that sometimes pithy reductive quips can be based on overly reductive assumptions. Maybe it is the case that a single baby is all that’s required, but maybe the author misunderstood the goal.

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        In this fictional scenario of the author’s creation? That just demonstrates the converse - that sometimes simple ideas will be deliberately misinterpreted in a convoluted way, to prove someone else’s point.

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          In this fictional scenario of the author’s creation?

          So a straw man? Or are we supposed to infer that this is an illustrative example of actual behavior?