Brandolini's Law

HOWDY, Y'ALL!!

Loaded post, CDR M! (Say, how DOES one pronounce "Seedy are-um?")

Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

Seriously. At LEAST an order.

I learned this the hard way back in the earlier days of online back'n'forth, along with this corrolary: Every carefully-reasoned response will produce another bucket of fisked bullshit which will in turn require yet another etc. to refute it. Ad nauseum.

What you thought was intelligent debate becomes a combination of Whack-a-Mole and Missile Command.

And it will suck up your life if you let it.

http://xkcd.com/386/ (Somebody is wrong)