Re: string> missing?

[Jay Belanger]

>> In what way is any one of the answers the least bit unreasonable?
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> Since you asked:
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>> Because they do.
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> "Because they do" is a non-answer.

The complete answer he gave was:
  "Because they do.  The cause is lost in history."
In other words: "We don't know", which is a perfectly good answer.

>> The cause is lost in history.
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> Nonsense.

??????

>> No, I don't agree.
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> I really don't understand why Eli would say something like this.

So disagreeing with you is unreasonable?

> I think it contradicts his work.

?????

>> That's exactly the point: there's no need to apply the same logic to
>> both cases.
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> This makes no sense:

It does to me.
You not understanding something isn't the same as it not making sense.

Eli gave perfectly reasonable answers, you just didn't like them.