Whether or not you were able to suspend disbelief seems irrelevant, as the purpose of the post is not to tell a plausible story. It’s to illustrate certain concepts. In fact, if you had been able to suspend your disbelief entirely then the post would have failed, as your attention would have been on the story, rather than the underlying points being made.
Criticising a parable such as this for its implausibility is rather like doing the same for the trolley problem, or the utility monster. I think it misses the point.
Whether or not you were able to suspend disbelief seems irrelevant, as the purpose of the post is not to tell a plausible story. It’s to illustrate certain concepts. In fact, if you had been able to suspend your disbelief entirely then the post would have failed, as your attention would have been on the story, rather than the underlying points being made.
Criticising a parable such as this for its implausibility is rather like doing the same for the trolley problem, or the utility monster. I think it misses the point.