On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > AFFIRM. > > I think both the judge's opinion and the gratuitous arguments provided > by ais523 in response to the defendant's appeal are generally reasonable.
Gratuitous: I don't (especially since some of ais523's gratuitous arguments contradicted the judge's opinion)... ais523's opinion and mine differ mainly in that e thinks the statement in the document is subjunctive (if X, it is necessarily true that Y), while I think the document is indicative (it is not actually true that X and not Y). I always intended for it to be indicative, because the subjunctive version of the statement would be somewhat nonsensical / impossible, and might not work as expected to ratify. I'm not entirely sure such a statement can actually be expressed in English... but I'm also not sure that it can't, as the analogy of a prophecy seems reasonable. In any case, the wording of the document is awkward specifically because I wanted to avoid a subjunctive interpretation. Again, the test for GUILTY is not that the arguments against me are reasonable (sufficiently more reasonable than mine to be considered correct), but that my arguments are inherently unreasonable.
