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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
(Elfwreck mentions safe driving)
You're mixing up the metaphor here, and in doing so miss the point.
CSS is saying "a less-than-universal application of a rule is unfair." I'm simply pointing out that this is merely a reality and a common occurrence -- and still doesn't let you off the hook.
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You brought up the metaphor, I think it's fair if Elfwreck gets to use it too.
And her point is not that someone else swerving might make one speed, her point (in my opinion--I apologize if I am misinterpreting) is that if a vague rule is being enforced inconsistently it is certainly an issue that it is 1) unfair and 2) not going to achieve its stated purpose and therefore not just unfair, but unfair for nothing.
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Better yet, please feel free to propose a standard that would actually work. Then demonstrate that The Lover will universally land on one side or the other of said test.
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I think you misunderstand. I can't speak for Elfwreck but for myself, I am not proposing a better standard. I am proposing no standard at all beyond what is legal.
I think you are quite right to point out that no standard can be fair. Where we differ is that I think the right solution is "therefore we should have no standard" and you appear to think the right solution is "therefore we must not mind that pulling books is unfair."
But I do mind. And I think that in particular, your apparent expectation that
the author herself should not mind, even though a chunk of her livelihood is on the line, is unreasonable and unrealistic.
In addition, I think the author's desire for her book to be treated like the bible when it comes to being pulled or not is merely her way of saying what I have already said: "
Treat all books the same with regard to standards that determine whether you sell or pull them, and with regard to handling customer complaints regarding them."
You have not persuaded me that there is anything absurd, childish, fatuous, specious, tone-deaf, trivial, unpersuasive
or "and so forth" about this request.