Reply #102: Nicely put.

[baby_mouse]

My analogy's strength relies on the reader identifying on some level with Alice, ignores questions that may have some genuine ambiguity about them. I assert that very few of these are actually as ambiguous as they appear.

A classic example was the lowering of the age of consent for homosexual sex in the UK. The hetero age of consent was 16 and the homo 21. The homos (of which I am one) thought this was stupid and wanted 16. Anyone else who had an opposing opinion wanted to keep it where it was. The Government compromised and made it 18. This solved NOTHING, it perpetuated the idea the homosexuality is somehow weird and simultaneously frightened the sheep.

My position is that they should have dropped it to 16 in one go. The Irish, when they removed the legal mess around homosexuality, did it all in one go.

If you can come up with clear examples of questions that are obviously ambiguous I'd be interested to see them, as I can think of few that I have in the past adopted a "compromised" position on.

Of course, some may think that that just makes me a curmudgeonly old git...