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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
*shrug* I think you're nitpicking a little bit, but I guess it's a matter of personal opinion. From my perspective, I understand entirely why he chose to write it the way he did, because he explains the cause of the odd behaviour and moves on, as does pretty much every single story in the book. The point of the short stories is not meant to be a thesis of justification by scientific method; that would get rather boring to read, given the amount of statistical analysis that would be involved in such a "proof". He is using each instance as a method of exploring the laws and how they interact with each other, not trying to prove exactly what outcome would occur in each situation...
At least, that's the way I see it. Science by storytelling is, in my book, allowed a bit of poetic license :P
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Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the story up until the end, and I've enjoyed Asimov before now as well, I just think that the ending was dumb. I get that it's basically a comment on religion, saying that it may be illogical, but it has it's uses, so **** it, but I can't get over how dumb the actual ending was.