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   XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: pmcook@gte.net   
      
   On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:46:35 +0000, chris wrote:   
      
   > Why don't you reply to my points directly?   
      
   Chris,   
      
   Let's be blunt.   
      
   Your argument is preposterous that reason the overall accident rates   
   don't show any effect whatsoever from cellphone use is due to   
   (magically perfect) "hidden" factors.   
      
   If you truly believe the studies that *prove* [sic] that cellphone   
   use while driving is as dangerous as driving drunk would be, and   
   if you have the most basic inkling of how many people own cellphones   
   in the United States, then what you're intimating is preposterous.   
      
   You are, in effect, saying that everyone on the road who owns a   
   cellphone who is using that cellphone while driving is driving   
   as unsafely as a drunk driver would.   
      
   If that were even remotely true, the numbers of accidents that   
   would be happening would be catastrophically astoundingly huge.   
      
   That the accident rate shows nothing of the sort, you then try   
   to explain away as being "hidden" in the numbers.   
      
   Your argument is therefore patently preposterous, and, as a   
   result, is far beyond reasonable belief.   
      
   I grant you that your argument "can" happen, but the chances of   
   it happening, especially in light of the fact that you can't think   
   of a single factor that would hide such stupendous numbers, proves   
   beyond a doubt that you're simply grasping at straws.   
      
   You are beyond hope, and, since you wish to have the last word,   
   I will grant you your wish. But, I do hope that you realize what   
   it is that you're saying, because my argument is as plain as   
   Occams Razor, while yours requires a stupendously huge suspension   
   preposterously sized suspension of disbelief in order to carry   
   any weight.   
      
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