On: Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as ...

[glenstein]

And again, I'm sorry but I find that to be spurious, for reason's I've explained at length. You seem to feel there's too much conceptual distance between the hypothetical about speciesm and a comment about speciesm it was replying to.

So far as I can tell, what you are really objecting to is not my comment but to the idea of communicating through hypothetical examples.

[boston_clone → glenstein]

Correct! Well, at least the hypothetical you provided for the reasons that I provided. Conceptual distance is a good way to put it, though!