2+2=5 wall of shame

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[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The background of this bullshit is here:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a33547137/why-some-people-think-2-plus-2-equals-5/

Not one single of these people really believe what they are saying, and that includes the guy who started the twitter discussion. He's now calling it "a joke argument", which is fair enough but the original post was more serious than a joke.

The original statement made was:

“I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if someone says 2+2=5, the correct response is, ‘What are your definitions and axioms?’ not a rant about the decline of Western civilization.”

The correct response to this is Nobody needs to hear this, because it's bullshit and you don't mean one single word of it.

The fact is, if he got a bill that added 2 + 2 and got 5, he wouldn't ask about definitions or axioms, he'd immediately complain that the bill was inaccurate.

Every single one of the defences of this boil down to an insincere redefinition of words or symbols or both in an effort to appear too clever by half.