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Trolling, Trolling, Over the Seven Seas...

A play in one act, performed everyday across the world. BLOGGER: When we examined moon rocks... TROLL: The moon is made of cheese! You are such an idiot. BLOGGER: Well, no cheese is a joint product of milk-producing animals and humans and since neither exist on the moon... TROLL: Just because all the cheese YOU know of comes about that way, you think all cheese must. It's people like you who block the path of science. BLOGGER: Well, per Occam's Razor... TROLL: Oh, please! Like some medieval idiot who believed that the moon was a perfect celestial sphere has anything to say about modern science! BLOGGER: Surely we have to be careful to separate the philosophical issues from the scientific... TROLL: 'Philosophy' is just a word for areas science hasn't conquered yet. BLOGGER: Isn't that itself a philosophical statement? TROLL: That is just the sort of attitude that would have stopped the Wright Brothers from ever flying! [The above continues ...