From: Wade T. Smith (wade.t.smith@verizon.net)
Date: Wed 21 May 2003 - 11:30:35 GMT
On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 01:13 AM, Joe wrote:
> If a person dogmatically insists that 2 + 2 = 5, it is a duty of
> knowledgeable others, not a fault of theirs, to point out that they
> really =
> 4, lest the mathematically deficient believe and spread the fallacious
> meme. That's the way selection works.
As Richard would be wont to point out, the correctness of a thing in no
way determines its probability of selection or distribution.
- Wade
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