XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 18:23:03 +1300, Your Name   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.science,rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > In article , David Johnston   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >> On 1/14/2014 5:15 PM, Your Name wrote:   
      
   >>> In article , David Johnston   
   >>>  wrote:   
      
   >>>> On 1/14/2014 12:54 PM, Your Name wrote:   
      
      
   [...]   
      
   >>>>> Horse travel is just as safe as any other form of   
   >>>>> transport - people have died using any of them.   
      
   >>>> People have died using any of them does mean that they   
   >>>> are all equally safe.   
      
   >>> It means none of them are completely safe.   
      
   >> Which is not the same thing as all being "just as safe".   
      
   > Good grief. The pedantic stupidity of the Internet strikes   
   > again.   
      
   You said: ‘Horse travel is just as safe as any other form of   
   transport’.  This is manifestly false.  You attempted to   
   justify by noting that ‘people have died using any of them’;   
   it is hardly pedantry to point out that this, while true, is   
   irrelevant to the initial assertion.   
      
   > I never said it was 100% exactly the same down to the   
   > precetnage 90millionth decimal place. The point was that   
   > some people die from and some people safely use ANY and   
   > EVERY transport type.  :-\   
      
   If that was the point, you should not have made the much   
   stronger assertion that ‘Horse travel is just as safe as any   
   other form of transport’.   
      
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