"Rudolf Polzer" <AntiATField_adsgohere@durchnull.de> wrote:
> Scripsit illud Disaster <disaster@disfanfic.NOSPAM.net>:
> > Errors? Their are fewer errors in destroying something that doesn't
exist
> > then in trying to use it you mental case!
>
> No. After destroying what didn't exist there are -1 of them. -1 is not
> zero, so after that, it does exist. It can only be removed by creating
> it - if you destroy it, you've got -2 of them which is an even worse
> inconsistence. The simplest way ou is destroying *all* of them, because
> this would mean destroying -1 respective -2 of them, and after that
there
> are none (0) left. So one gets into major trouble when destroying what
> doesn't exist.
>
> Using it, however, does just result in noting. It's useless - but it
> does not create such inconsistencies. It's completely harmless.

Actually as we are using an object with a mass greater then 0 or -1 then
we can not refer to the situation using the process you described above.
You can never have -1 or -2 of something regardless of intent. The only
way you could conceive of -1 or -2 is if you compare one time frame to
another in which you had 2 of them before and now you have 0. This would
generate a -2 difference. Which is just as good as saying you have 0 of
them. Hence the destruction of nothing gives you the same result as the
destruction of something. However the use of something that doesn't exist
is much less then the use of something that would have been there!

Hence, it is more useless to try and use something that isn't there then
it is to destroy it.
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