I think asking someone to do something is pretty different from ordering someone to do something. I also think for the sake of the conversation it’s good if there’s public, non-DM evidence that he did that: you’d make a pretty different inference if he just picked one point and said that Quintin misunderstood him, compared to once you know that that’s the point Quintin picked as his strongest objection.
I think asking someone to do something is pretty different from ordering someone to do something. I also think for the sake of the conversation it’s good if there’s public, non-DM evidence that he did that: you’d make a pretty different inference if he just picked one point and said that Quintin misunderstood him, compared to once you know that that’s the point Quintin picked as his strongest objection.
You might be right.
Well, I’m only arguing from surface features of Eliezer’s comments, so I could be wrong too :P