"It's all your fault! You and your damned mace! If you had used a warhammer, we never would have died!!!"
If you can't see how ridiculous you sound in all this, there's nothing more I can say.
You shouldn't, because you're simply wrong, and falsifying what was said. Let's take it step by step:
First, you said:
You then said:
I pointed out that this amounts to a flat out contradiction. If an action is liable to have a certain result, then by definition that means it is likely to...
Let's take a close look at what you wrote, shall we?
That's right, you wrote "liable to," not "liable for." Notice that the subject is the "actions of the latter," which you say "are liable to get, etc." Actions are not "legally responsible" for anything; it's the persons who perform those...
Yes, there is: wanting to play a character who wields a mace instead of a warhammer. As far as reasons go for doing anything in D&D, desiring to play your character in a certain way is as good as they come.
To people to complain about how weak B/X magic-users are, I say, "Let me see you cast a magic missile even once in your lifetime, never mind once a day."
Some of us believe in role-playing our characters, so playing one with low Int can be pretty obnoxious, regardless of how little mechanical effect it may have.