Indeed, some shovels are better suited to some things while others, others. If the two shovels you have in mind are equal in their difference - that is each is better than the other for approximately (if not precisely) 50% of the situations in which one would require a shovel - then it is clearly silly to have more than a personal, arbitrary preference.
But this does not apply when there is a case of clear superiority in one member of your set. For example, your comparison of computers can include a set wherein some computers or computer systems are objectively and inherently inferior to others for the majority (if not entirety) of situations wherein a computer would be necessary. Cameras too - this is an even easier domain, for there is consensus that superior and inferior devices exist (such as SLR and airport-disposables). It would be preposterous for someone to passionately declare and defend the proposal that an airport-kiosk-bought disposable camera is capable of taking photographs indistinguishable from those of an SLR camera "to all but experts" (who, of course, grow on trees).
Lastly, the troll-esque quip about "god". Such a small and insubstantial sentence (it makes a claim that goes beyond mere preposterous into the terrain of nonsense) packs so much volitional insult and bitterness.
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Date: 2007-04-18 11:43 am (UTC)But this does not apply when there is a case of clear superiority in one member of your set. For example, your comparison of computers can include a set wherein some computers or computer systems are objectively and inherently inferior to others for the majority (if not entirety) of situations wherein a computer would be necessary. Cameras too - this is an even easier domain, for there is consensus that superior and inferior devices exist (such as SLR and airport-disposables). It would be preposterous for someone to passionately declare and defend the proposal that an airport-kiosk-bought disposable camera is capable of taking photographs indistinguishable from those of an SLR camera "to all but experts" (who, of course, grow on trees).
Lastly, the troll-esque quip about "god". Such a small and insubstantial sentence (it makes a claim that goes beyond mere preposterous into the terrain of nonsense) packs so much volitional insult and bitterness.