But you are wrong here. He’s sorry, but it’s true. And it is his unfortunate duty as a University teaching assistant and Patrick G. Clarke research fellow to give detailed, nuanced explanation as to why what you just said is totally without basis. He takes no joy in this. Let him break it down like this:

First of all, he is in his fifth year of doctoral study which fact may not be totally relevant to the question at hand but believe him, he’s been around the proverbial block a few proverbial times and he’s seen this sort of mistake made again and again by people smarter than yourself. Sure. When intuitively considered, he sees how one could think that what you believe to be the case is, in fact the case.

Renton is sorry he had to take up valuable class time to address your remark. But you didn’t really leave him that option, did you?