Okay, let's steelman the argument then. Short selling a company's shares cannot bankrupt the company. Happier? (Again, I say this because there is no theoretic

Okay, let's steelman the argument then. Short selling a company's shares cannot bankrupt the company. Happier? (Again, I say this because there is no theoretical mechanism by which selling stock short can realistically cause bankruptcy - contrived examples to the contrary. And we know they're contrived examples because it's never actually happened.)