I haven’t top-levelled this specific line of thinking because I figured it was already addressed in the two Sequence posts mentioned at the bottom. If people who have read the sequences agree that they didn’t get this exact implication when they first read them, I’ll top-level it.
This should be a top level post.
And indeed, Yvain later made a top-level post of (a generalized form of) it.
I haven’t top-levelled this specific line of thinking because I figured it was already addressed in the two Sequence posts mentioned at the bottom. If people who have read the sequences agree that they didn’t get this exact implication when they first read them, I’ll top-level it.