Python "why" questions

[Ben Finney]

"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy at druid.net> writes:

> No.  You are giving me math and logic but the subject was common
> sense.

Common sense is often unhelpful, and in such cases the best way to teach
something is to plainly contradict that common sense.

Common sense, for example, would have the Earth as a flat surface with
the Sun and Moon as roughly-identically-sized objects orbiting the
Earth. Is it better to pander to that common sense, or to vigorously
reject it in order to teach something more useful?

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Ben Finney