9th June 2014, 8:51 AM
Is this like that whole "electability" nonsense they trot around every election cycle? Yeah no they don't look bad to ME, but it does to lots of "other people", and knowing that it would look bad to "other people" makes that a bad decision, and thus it looks bad to me all over again. That sort of combination of circular logic and argument by majority?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)