Answer a QUESTION with a QUESTION

[TBRS1]

What if we lived in an alternate reality where anybody running for public office were required to be actual clowns-in-costume any time they appeared in public (until the mimes stage a coup)?

 

[tree]

How would the mimes plan their coup?

 

[TBRS1]

Wouldn't they pull buildings down with make believe ropes, unless the clowns were able to construct an imaginary invisible wall first?

 

[blue_bird]

Doesn't this sound a bit like a session of Parliament?

 

[TBRS1]

Did you write that in order prove to me in one sentence that you are definitely not from the U.S.A.?

 

[tree]

You mean they weren't talking about an eight grader
who snitched their mom's cigarettes and is
trying hard to look cool?

 

[Rodafina]

Doesn’t that sound like a recipe for getting detention and getting grounded on the same day?

 

[TBRS1]

Would you serve both sentences concurrently?

 

[Rodafina]

With a question like that, can I assume you were homeschooled?

 

[TBRS1]

Did you know that young people often imagine that their teacher's home is the school?

 

[NDR2]

Is that what gives them the right to discipline the children?

 

[TBRS1]

Could we try an experiment in which the children have the right to discipline the teacher and see what everybody learns from that?

 

[Rodafina]

Is it ethical to perform social experiments on children?

 

[TBRS1]

If you can't perform unethical social experiments on naive and easily manipulated children, who are you going to be able to do them on?

 

[NDR2]

Naive and easily manipulated adults?

 

[TBRS1]

Why would I encourage unethical experiments on myself?

 

[NDR2]

You admit that you’re naive and easily manipulated?

 

[TBRS1]

If you think so, wouldn't it be easiest for me to just go along with it?

 

[Rodafina]

Do you not have a drum to create your own beat and march to it?

 

[tree]

How's he going to do all those things at once---play drums, march, and
be a subject in unethical experiments?