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Nicholas Conrad

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Back in the obama administration, I heard a story on the NPR news quiz show "wait, wait, don't tell me" about research showing that dark beer restores more electorates than Gatorade. Now I treat myself to a nice stout after weekend or evening workouts. I do find alcohol before a workout diminishes performance rather dramatically though.

It's the same argument. The fact that you argue in words proves that you implicitly accept the definition of the words, even though you use those words to argue the words you're using have no meaning. The fact that you you argue about morality instead of killing people about morality proves that you implicitly accept the immorality of using violence to settle intellectual disputes.

Q.E.D.

if you say no they can detain you

I am not sure if you are saying there is a causal relationship, or just a coincident one between these two events.

In alaska they can detain you if they have cause whether you identify yourself when asked or not; so on that sense yes: if you say 'no' they can still detain you. But unless you are driving at the time, they cannot (or I should say 'should not' according to the law) detain you because you say 'no'.

How would that even work? If you don't have your id on you, they won't have any way to tell who to write the ticket to if they catch you without it. It's like the substitute teacher asking anyone absent during roll call to raise their hand.