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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4726230" data-attributes="member: 4937">But to have everything have exceptions is equally boring.  If most things have exceptions then the ordinary thing is to be diverse, the exceptional thing is for it to not have exceptions.  To truly have the full span of diversity, you must have something for which diversity is alien.I read never as like 99.9999999%.  The exception is so rare that it may never occur for that particular species in the lifetime of creation.  I read always as 'the probability is very very close to 1', where 'very very close' is defined how a mathimatician might define an interval arbitrarily close to one.  That's how I read 'overwhelming majority'.  Ninety percent is far from an overwhelming majority.  Ninety percent means exceptions are common and indeed reutine.</blockquote>