[Natsu]

Nah, they'd do an analysis and say that it ends at exactly 1 cm away from the end of one's nose or whatever.

Then people would complain that it wasn't fair, because they intended to stop at 1 cm, but actually stopped at 0.99 cm and that should be close enough. And then someone would try to drag relativity into play and question what reference frame we should be measuring that 1 cm in and things would go downhill from there.

[shasta]

Right, because while you and I are able to see absurdity of that, these super intelligent geeks you have in mind wouldn't be able to.

[true_religion]

He's going with the "geeks are blind to common sense" fallacy.

[Natsu]

Actually, I'm going with "rules aren't precise because people disagree strongly over stupidly minor details so we have to abstract them to reach consensus."