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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5379380" data-attributes="member: 4937">This exactly.&nbsp; Whenever something appears to be nonsense, you need to consider closely whether it is you or the one you accuse of nonsense that isn't thinking deeply enough about the matter.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the case of a fantasy graveyard, it might well be that the writer hasn't considered the question, &quot;Why bury things in a graveyard if you have certain knowledge that undead exist?&quot;, but it may be that the writer has considered that and you just haven't considered the answer.&nbsp; The truth of the matter is that since this is a fantasy, the answer to almost any question depends strongly on the assumptions you make about how the fantasy universe and undead work.&nbsp; Graveyards may or may not be in context nonsensical, but without some knowledge of the universe we can't really say one way or the other.&nbsp; However, the upshot of this is that in anything but the most well described universe, its always pretty easy to post-hoc rationalize anything in a fantasy setting simply by inventing the rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5379380, member: 4937"] This exactly. Whenever something appears to be nonsense, you need to consider closely whether it is you or the one you accuse of nonsense that isn't thinking deeply enough about the matter. In the case of a fantasy graveyard, it might well be that the writer hasn't considered the question, "Why bury things in a graveyard if you have certain knowledge that undead exist?", but it may be that the writer has considered that and you just haven't considered the answer. The truth of the matter is that since this is a fantasy, the answer to almost any question depends strongly on the assumptions you make about how the fantasy universe and undead work. Graveyards may or may not be in context nonsensical, but without some knowledge of the universe we can't really say one way or the other. However, the upshot of this is that in anything but the most well described universe, its always pretty easy to post-hoc rationalize anything in a fantasy setting simply by inventing the rules. [/QUOTE]

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