Posted: 5/6/2016 2:47:46 PM EDT
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And it came to pass that there was a zombie outbreak. It was all over the news and everyone with internet access knew it happened, right until the power cut off and society plunged into a panicked chaos. Hoards of zombies from the densely populated urban areas were pouring across the lands, slaughtering and turning everyone they came across.
As the scourge spread across the land, a small community in a desolate area had a meeting to figure out how to deal with the threat. They quickly figured out that due to the topography of the land, the surrounding hills, cliffs, and arroyos, they had enough resources to create a protective barrier to keep the zombies out. They would use the garage doors off their homes to do this. But at this point a controversy arose. There were two possible ways of configuring the garage doors, of lining them up and connecting them, to create a 'closed' structure that would be effective. Each possible configuration would take all almost all of the available garage doors, but both possibilities could not be built at once. At their meeting, the neighbors ultimately coalesced around two possible construction foremen. The two would-be leaders both agreed to the plan of using garage doors to build the barriers, but one favored the "option A" configuration, while the other wanted to build "option B." Both were well known in the neighborhood, and both had their fervent fans and vigorous detractors. Both had big personalities. So the neighborhood did the only thing they could. They had a vote. And a clear winner emerged from that vote, the guy who favored the "Option A" layout for the garage door barrier. But there was a problem. The people who supported the other guy (the one who did not win the vote for construction foreman), really really really hated and did not trust the guy who their neighbors had picked. These guys told everyone who would listen that they would use THEIR garage doors for "option B" anyway. Their neighbors tried to reason with them: "Look, we voted, this is the way the vote went, and the neighborhood needs everyone's garage door to stop the zombies, we have to come together," they said. "Nonsense!" said these others. "Our guy is better, and we do not trust the guy you picked. We're going to set up our garage doors according to the 'option B' configuration. Better to die of zombies than to follow a guy we don't trust. Look, here is a 200 year old quote from a founding father who we believe justifies our righteous indignation against the leader our idiotic neighbors have chosen." And when the day came to build the barrier, those people did just what they said they would. They got ready to put up their garage doors (a small but material percentage of the total available doors) up along a surveyed line that would have been a wall under 'option B' but did not even connect with the enclosure their neighbors were erecting with their garage doors. "Please," their neighbors begged... "the zombies are almost here, there's too many to defend especially if we're not all together." "Nope," said those others. "Its a matter of principal. Each of us has our own garage door. WE decide what we will do with it." And so, there were not enough garage doors supporting either configuration, neither foreman's structure carried the day, and there was no completed barrier to keep the zombies out. Every last man, woman and child in the neighborhood fell to the zombie hoard. The end. |
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This analogy fails.
In order for the analogy to work, it would require the following scenario : separately, a group of scientists were carefully considering both garage door options. They thoroughly tested each option. They found that ultimately, pressure from the zombie hordes would overwhelm either garage door solution. So both garage door options A and B were a failure and the people were doomed. |
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Quoted:
Please now, for I am ever so curious, tell me how you 100% support all of Obama's agenda since he has been sworn into office? I do not support the agenda, but I go along with it -- just as you do -- by continuing to pay taxes, by not risking up and killing people, and continuing to participate in the society even though I disagree with the leader picked in the last choosing. When I did not take health insurance during the first year of Obamacare, I paid the penalty. The next year when I found a plan I liked, I purchased it. I do not like where Obama is building the garage fort, but (as is the cast for most ARFCOMers, I'm sure), I'm not selling secrets or sending money or material support to enemies of the United States just because I'm pissed at who my neighbors elected. In other words, I'm not burning it down. |