Originally Posted by
DX-MAN
Okay, let's use your sarcastic logic -- remembering that NO ONE GETS OUT OF LIFE ALIVE, why do you cling so hard to life? FALL under that truck, you're gonna die anyway. Death is 100%, not 50/50, so why bother? *THAT'S* what your silliness is saying.
I agree "my sarcastic logic" is silly; that's the point. I think that that silliness is the same silliness as your original silliness. I'm just trying to show you how silly you look by showing you something equally silly. Or I guess, rather, I'm just showing everybody else how well I understand your silliness. I don't really think you care. (But now I see that you care passionately!)
I'll instead suggest to you that you COME GET my wallet; it's 50/50 whether you'll get up, travel here, and try; 50/50 that, if you try, you will succeed. 50/50 that your attempt could also end with the 100%.
I don't need to expend any effort to take your wallet. I'll just sit around and wait for you to drop it and then pick it up. Odds are 50/50 that plan will work. Not only that, but there's a chance you'll suddenly go crazy, decide you hate money and leather, and throw your wallet at me. And that chance is 50/50, so two 50/50's and I'm already up to 100%! Or wait, since all chances are 50/50, is it still only at 50/50? Your math is confusing to me, I must be stupid.
It's THE wonderful thing about this country -- we can agree to disagree, and if we are both MATURE, we won't call each other "dumb" or "stupid" for having different opinions.
Another wonderful thing about this country is that when people say stupid things, you can say "hey, that's stupid". Even if the person is rich and powerful. Or even if they're just some guy on the internet.
Careful getting into this debate -- I may have you out in the field behind the castle, wolfing grass.......
I don't know what that means. Sorry, I guess I'm stupid. But I'm content that everybody else here (and every other place) would agree that "Not only 1 person/1 death, but odds and percentages are pretty much a game -- the odds are 50/50 for everything, it'll either happen or it won't." is stupid.