[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."