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To show how wonderfully tolerant this place is of nonsense:

In my utopia breast augmentation surgery will be outlawed (save for procedures done for illness reasons) on two grounds:

1) It's a waste of valuable resources*
2) They look bad

Discuss.


*In my dream utopia, healthcare is not only "free" (well, Universal) it's also mandatory

Can't have the sick bring down the healthy

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Imagine a square, whose corners are ABCD (A is the lower left, B is top left, C is top right, D is bottom right)

Suppose you are at A and want to get to C
Take as a given that you cannot go diagonally and must use sidewalks (that is, the lines of the square)

There are two equally optimal paths to get from A to C.

It is not optimal to go from A to B, to B' (which is directly above B) over to C' (similarly above C) and then down to C
That would not be optimal

But there is no reason that there can only be one optimal path.

Since that is the premise of your argument, the rest of it crumbles.