Foolish, foolish mortals
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I'm watching the Yankees vs the Red Sox and as it goes into extra innings the color guy says the Red Sox have never lost an extra innings home game during the play-offs. He says their record under those conditions is 6-0-1, and the 1 happened in 1912.
1912?
Not a single active player in the whole Major Leagues was even born then. And how many people on any team, in any sport, was playing for that team even ten years ago? Enough to claim it's the same team?
General Motors introduced a new car named Impala, what, two-three years ago. The first ad had this guy walking around the car talking about how his father had an Impala, how he's glad they brought the Impala back.
This car has an inline six, electronic fuel injection and a visual style that would have been laughed off the street the last year his fathers car (which was also called Impala) was produced.
During the 1700s the various Protestant churches and religious leaders came up with justifications for slavery and catechisms designed to train the slave to be passive. Rules that allowed some who worked slaves to death (because it was cheaper to replace them than to keep them healthy) access to hebbin. Declared them good people. And actively participated in designing the laws and customs of southern slave society.
Today they would not openly do any such thing. Are these churches responsible for that past brutality? Are they even the same institutions?
If you order enough top quality lumber to make a traditional oak bedroom set and I deliver acorns, have I fulfilled my contract? If you order salad and I bring you lettuce seeds will you pay for them?
If a political party changes its direction entirely and as a result of that change every member of that party that supported the old platform quit, is it still the same organization?
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