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I don't think that it's irrational at all. As a hypothetical, or at least mine, it isn't meant to imply real world historical contexts. Purely speculative.
You explained what would happen if an enemy attacked your ship, remember? No historical context needed there. Just reacting to an attack as any reasonable human would - at least from my perspective. I took that as a hypothetical.
Or perhaps it's happened to you in real life. That's fair, but besides the point I was trying to make. All I am saying is that for the purpose of my response to you, I took it as such.
So - I simply asked you to consider a hypothetical further - where the situation would be an ACTUAL situation if you were Yemeni. Or even American in an alternate universe where the US isn't a world power and another 'enemy' nation is. But without taking into account any of the 'labels', 'sides', or history.
That's it.
That's interesting, thanks for sharing and the correction. It might have been an example of semantic shifting / conflating the definition with something else on my part.
Although, I did see a few definitions (after quite a bit of search) that pointed to a potential for other use-cases. Such as below:
blurb - Vocab.com
I don't think that it's irrational at all. As a hypothetical, or at least mine, it isn't meant to imply real world historical contexts. Purely speculative.
You explained what would happen if an enemy attacked your ship, remember? No historical context needed there. Just reacting to an attack as any reasonable human would - at least from my perspective. I took that as a hypothetical.
Or perhaps it's happened to you in real life. That's fair, but besides the point I was trying to make. All I am saying is that for the purpose of my response to you, I took it as such.
So - I simply asked you to consider a hypothetical further - where the situation would be an ACTUAL situation if you were Yemeni. Or even American in an alternate universe where the US isn't a world power and another 'enemy' nation is. But without taking into account any of the 'labels', 'sides', or history.
That's it.
You mentioned "historical blurbs" I don't think there is such a thing unless you're talking about blurbs which just happen to be for historical books.
This is a blurb, it also happens to be historical, it's old. Beyond that a blurb has nothing to do with history. It's an advertisement for something which is published to be sold to readers.
The Proud Purple Penultimate!
That's interesting, thanks for sharing and the correction. It might have been an example of semantic shifting / conflating the definition with something else on my part.
Although, I did see a few definitions (after quite a bit of search) that pointed to a potential for other use-cases. Such as below:
blurb - Vocab.com