“Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.”
In the aftermath of two mass shootings ((today's date is 26-May-2022), this reminds me of the arguments of gun rights advocates: there is no point in doing anything, because nothing we can do will entirely 100% solve every problem in the USA.
