[tptacek]

This has nothing to do with my argument at all, but I'm game for pointing out that I think it's an incredibly weak argument. All sorts of things that we rightly agree are fair game for public policy decisions can be boiled down to "just math" or "just basic chemistry" or, whatever.

This is the computer science version of the weed farmer's argument that the government can't regulate marijuana because it grows in the ground, man.