Martin Luther - “Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.“
So far I’m not a fool according to mister Luther because I love women, wine and song. Although I can’t help but think that he thought:
- homosexuality is wrong; if you don’t love women (yes even if you are a lesbian or a heterosexual guy) you are a fool.
- anything but wine is bad; so if you love your beer or milk you are a fool.
- if you hate song; then you were a fool (which I have to agree with him on this one)
However all these things are conjugated with an “and” and in logic for the consequent to be true all of the antecedents must be (simultaneously) true. Therefore if you don’t love women and you don’t love wine and you don’t love song, then you will be a fool. However if you just love one of those antecedents then you’re not a fool. This is because you just made the antecedent false and therefore the consequent must also be false. So you better love either women, wine or song or all of them. So in other words, in order to be a fool for the rest of your life, you have to hate women, wine and song.
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