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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8442245" data-attributes="member: 16814">Ah, so those questions, which were posed to an isolated statement by [USER=42582]@pemerton[/USER], aren't meant to have any independent merit -- they are not actually asking the questions they are asking -- without the entirety of the rest of the post?  They are vestigial questions, not meant for serious response?  One should, in fact, be expected to think them unimportant and not making any points?  Here's the part, again:The remainder of that post you're complaining about is the same kind of false equivalence that I and others have pointed out -- that people can be tall and telephone poles are tall does not make people telephone poles.  Similarly, you're imagining of a backstory-first framing that results in the same outcome as the play example does not mean that these things are the same.  It just shows that you're mistaking ends for means, and dismissing that means have any impact.  It's essentially trying to say that a road trip from around the country that stops in Vegas, where you hit lots of touristy places on the way, stop to spend time with extended family in many states, and form lots of huge memories on the way, is the same thing as just taking a cheap flight to Vegas because, after all, you ended up in the same place.  So, then, boarding the plane is just like getting in the car, and sitting in the plane is just like sitting in the car, and you both stop in Vegas is pretty much the same thing.</blockquote>

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