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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3160581" data-attributes="member: 177">Perhaps, but even if so, "as exclusive as it gets" does not mean it really is exclusive.  Clearly it isn't absolutely and irrovocably exclusive, as later texts explicitly revoke the exclusivity.  And once exclusivity is broken once, the question arises for all time...You note the rules weren't written with mathematical precision, and I agree.  I wasn't the one who started the mathematical logic argument, I was merely noting the fault.  Natural language does not generally fit mathematical logic without some asumptions on the author's intent. Since the rules were not written with such rigor, I submit that there is no one concrete answer present in the rules directly.   I personally feel a discussion on whether BE should deal with Feeblemind (in terms of balance and desired difficulty in dealing with the challenge) would be far more constructive than one on whether the rules say it does or doesn't, given the ambiguity.  Which was why I tried to get to the "it is open to interpretation" point, so that folks could perhaps move on.  Silly me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>