"By extending your logic, we can ask..."
No, by *unreasonably* extending his logic to an extreme neither intended nor necessary, you can ask...
This is another misapplication of the reductio ad absurdum.
It's not ridiculous. It is exactly the same principle.
Why are there multi-$$$$$ chocolate companies when their money could be put to feeding and nursing sick children?
Of course, I see this has already been hypothsized in the thread. Don't mean to beat the uh, dead horse. http://home.att.net/~splatt13/deadhorse.gif