There's this town with two blacksmiths - one, a swordsmaker and the other, a shield maker. The swordsmaker's swords can slice through anything as a rule and the other guy's shields cannot be destroyed. Now they get cut up with each other for some reason and pit their wares against each other. What do you expect happens?

Chaz:
You are basically negating the entire existence of the word 'Destroy'.
'Destruction' can be the molecular separation of an object, not necessarily the elimination of its matter's existence.

What could happen is that the blacksmith which forges swords kills the other blacksmith without even touching the shield; the blacksmith with the shield would not necessarily be able to block every attack, and I find it more likely that the sword would kill more effectively than the shield.

Posted by Berry on 2003-05-10 02:36:08