actually, you aren't moving anything with that laser pointer. you don't move any particle from new york to los angeles - the particles that hit the ground at any point are all different. your laser dot on the face of earth is not a single object that you can claim have moved faster than light, it consists only of multiple collisions between your beam and the ground.
virtually, you can't get anyone to fight fair. part of them will switch their defences on right the moment you open your mouth (respectively when they start reading you) and not listen at all. the other part will be so self-righteous that they will listen politely to you and then will go on just as before. people who will listen and hear and understand will be so scarce that you can consider them nonexistent. and there will be even less of them with time, as more and more people choose to filter and narrow their minds. my best guess is that the amount of people who will accept a fair fight will remain constant - not as a percentage but as a number.
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actually, you aren't moving anything with that laser pointer. you don't move any particle from new york to los angeles - the particles that hit the ground at any point are all different. your laser dot on the face of earth is not a single object that you can claim have moved faster than light, it consists only of multiple collisions between your beam and the ground.
virtually, you can't get anyone to fight fair. part of them will switch their defences on right the moment you open your mouth (respectively when they start reading you) and not listen at all. the other part will be so self-righteous that they will listen politely to you and then will go on just as before. people who will listen and hear and understand will be so scarce that you can consider them nonexistent. and there will be even less of them with time, as more and more people choose to filter and narrow their minds. my best guess is that the amount of people who will accept a fair fight will remain constant - not as a percentage but as a number.