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Written by Paul B. at 04 Mar 2002 22:28:40: Failed argument
As an answer to: Re: Failure vs Success written by AJ at 04 Mar 2002 21:16:38:
> Jim, ... you stated that if skin didn't stretch then we wouldn't be able to grow (something along those lines).
This sounds fairly straightforward - are you agreeing or disputing it?
> Anyway, I put you right on the latter
You did? Exactly how did you do this?
> and pointed out that the we are not born with such an excess of skin as when we are born we do not look like bassett hounds,
Exactly what is your argument here? Can you somehow piece it together so we can see it?
> Your new comparison coupled with your other "surgeons use it"
How are you disputing the matter of surgeons using it?
> When women get pregnant the skin stretches/grows and then reverts to it's normal state once the stretching has stopped (baby is born).
Do you really have so little experience of women and pregnancies? I find that quite peculiar.
Your example proves the point we are trying to make superbly! You don't see women's abdomens exploding/ rupturing from the pressure (or if you do, it's written up in the medical annals as a remarkable oddity) - under the constant pressure, it stretches to accommodate, and then afterward springs back to a greater or lesser (note that - you really do need to get some real-life experience with women, mate. You are just so out of touch with them!) extent.
That is exactly what continuous stretching offers for the foreskin - the ability to stretch comfortably to the size required to pass easily over the glans (during erection), but plenty of elasticity to spring back to a snug size covering the glans afterward. Your example illustrates this perfectly.
> Stretching is not as fallable as you have been led to believe, Jim.
That is Jim's point entirely. Your poor command of English and logical reasoning has resulted in another, quite elegant, "Freudian slip".