The example of the doctor is relevant because the doctor is downplaying someone who has a legitimate query.
While you've done nothing wrong they have a job to do, and I didn't write it with capital letters because I overestimate them.
Woz just needed to answer "I buy the sheets from US Mint and glue them together", not go on a diatribe that although technically correct might be not so obvious
Of course a sense of humour is important, it's more important to know when to use and what are its limits.
Or feel free to call fire in a crowded theater and tell it's a joke.
I might as well stand in front of someone's house and begin taking pictures in a suspicious manner. I'm not harming anybody and it's perfectly legal.
And then when the owner asks me about it I answer "this is legal, I'm not doing anything wrong, I have nothing to say, now go away", then be surprised when the owner calls the cops.
I think the point is not that you shouldn't use $2 bills, but that when someone asks about them, you don't reply with "a little BS about buying them from a guy that hawked basketball tickets."
To address your earlier point that woz wasn't harming anybody, insinuating to casino security that you're passing counterfeit money is essentially saying "I am doing you harm." We generally frown upon people saying that, even when there's no real harm to accompany the statement.
Considering that the casino security person admitted the 2 dollar bills were legit currency, the fact that he intruded on someone doing nothing wrong and proceeded to basically interrogate him, it would be more accurate to say that the casino security person was the one essentially saying he intends to do harm.
Hopefully in the future he decided to not waste other people's time on his idle curiosity.
While you've done nothing wrong they have a job to do, and I didn't write it with capital letters because I overestimate them.
Woz just needed to answer "I buy the sheets from US Mint and glue them together", not go on a diatribe that although technically correct might be not so obvious
Of course a sense of humour is important, it's more important to know when to use and what are its limits.
Or feel free to call fire in a crowded theater and tell it's a joke.