Quadibloc wrote:
On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 7:20:36 AM UTC-7, Bill Gill wrote:
On 1/17/2017 1:29 AM, Chris.B wrote:

One can use a camera drone to achieve much the same result but at
greater, personal expense.

Maybe not. If you include the cost of the funeral the
cost of jumping off the cliff will probably exceed the
cost of the drone.

Ah, but the funeral will be paid for by someone else, so his phrasing of
"greater personal expense" would remain correct if one didn't count the loss of
one's own life as the greatest expense.

So you do have to exit from the joke to contradict him.

And exiting from the joke makes sense, because if one thinks the life of a
flat-earther isn't worth much... well, that's to the people around him, not to
himself... and _that_ directly contradicts the phrase "personal expense"!

John Savard


Most people pay for their own funeral, at least by proxy, since their heirs
have to pay it. In this case there would be a good chance of a Darwin Award
nomination.