Dialectic Physics

KURTZ
"Where are you from Willard ?"
WILLARD
"I'm from Ohio, sir."
KURTZ
"Were you born there ?"
WILLARD
"Yes, sir."
KURTZ
"Whereabouts ?"
WILLARD
"Toledo, sir."
KURTZ
"How far were you from the river ?"
WILLARD
"The Ohio river, sir ? About 200 miles."
KURTZ
"I went down that river when I was a kid. There's a place
in the river.. I can't remember... Must have been a gardenia
plantation at one time. All wild and overgrown now, but about
five miles you'd think that heaven just fell on the earth in the
form of gardenias...
Have you ever considered any real freedoms ? Freedoms -
from the opinions of others... Even the opinions of yourself.
They say why..., Willard, why they wanted to terminate my
command ?"
WILLARD
"I was sent on a classified mission, sir."
KURTZ
"It appears.. that its no longer classified, is it? What did they
tell you ?"
WILLARD
" They told me that you had gone totally insane and that your
methods were unsound."
KURTZ
" Are my methods unsound?"
WILLARD
" I don't see any method at all, sir."
KURTZ
" I expected someone like you. What did you expect?"
KURTZ
" Are you an assassin?"
WILLARD
" I'm a soldier."
KURTZ
" You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks
to collect a bill."

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KURTZ
"Where are you from Willard ?"
WILLARD
"I'm from Ohio, sir."
KURTZ
"Were you born there ?"
WILLARD
"Yes, sir."
KURTZ
"Whereabouts ?"
WILLARD
"Toledo, sir."
KURTZ
"How far were you from the river ?"
WILLARD
"The Ohio river, sir ? About 200 miles."
KURTZ
"I went down that river when I was a kid. There's a place
in the river.. I can't remember... Must have been a gardenia
plantation at one time. All wild and overgrown now, but about
five miles you'd think that heaven just fell on the earth in the
form of gardenias...
Have you ever considered any real freedoms ? Freedoms -
from the opinions of others... Even the opinions of yourself.
They say why..., Willard, why they wanted to terminate my
command ?"
WILLARD
"I was sent on a classified mission, sir."
KURTZ
"It appears.. that its no longer classified, is it? What did they
tell you ?"
WILLARD
" They told me that you had gone totally insane and that your
methods were unsound."
KURTZ
" Are my methods unsound?"
WILLARD
" I don't see any method at all, sir."
KURTZ
" I expected someone like you. What did you expect?"
KURTZ
" Are you an assassin?"
WILLARD
" I'm a soldier."
KURTZ
" You're neither. You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks
to collect a bill."

What does all this mean Kyle?

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Photo Journalist: One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.

While in theory debaters are not necessarily emotionally invested in their point of view, in practice debaters frequently display an emotional commitment that may cloud rational judgement.

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Most of my technical comments should be correct, but is THIS one ?
Anyway, as a rule of thumb, always double check what people write.