Ian On The Red Dot

Friend A: The iPhone sucks.

Friend B: Why?

Friend A: The touch-screen sucks.

Friend B: Why?

Friend A: When you are talking on the phone and you press your face against the screen, the call will disconnect.

Friend B: Have you used the iPhone before?

Friend A: No. But I’ve used other phones with touch-screens and this happens. So I’m pretty sure it will happen with the iPhone.

Friend B: But you have never used the iPhone? What if the iPhone has the ability to detect when it is your face pressed against the screen and not you trying to cut the call?

Friend A: Prove to me it has it.

Friend B: I can’t. I’ve never used the phone.

Friend A: So, it doesn’t have the ability.

Friend B: No. It might have. It might not have. The point is that none of us can be sure since both of us have never used the iPhone. So you cannot say the iPhone sucks because of that unless you have used the phone or it has been documented that this happens.

Friend A: Prove to me that it doesn’t happen.

Friend B: I’m not making any assertions. You are. You need to prove it happens.

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Sounds like a conversation between an atheist and an evangelist.

Evangelist: There is a God.

Atheist: You just can’t say there is a God. Prove it.

Evangelist: Prove to me there isn’t a God.

Atheist: What? Why? I’m not the one claiming the existence of someone no one can see, touch or hear.

Evangelist: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Atheist: True. True. So you can’t prove there is a God.

Evangelist: You can’t prove there is no God too.

Atheist: Yeah. Of course. But why should I?

Evangelist: Well, you need to if you say there is no God.

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I understand why people just go to war over such stuff. Killing is so much simpler then hoping that another human being has the capacity for rationale thought.