No, there is not, because the question is asked in the conditional tense: notice that it starts with the words "Say you wanted ...". It's invalid to criticize

No, there is not, because the question is asked in the conditional tense: notice that it starts with the words "Say you wanted ...". It's invalid to criticize a conditional statement for the nature of its premise. A conditional statement is not a statement about the desirability or otherwise of the premise; it's a statement about the link between the premise and the conclusion (sorry, I don't really know formal logic/linguistics and those probably aren't the right terms but I do know that what I'm saying is correct.) For the same reason, every programmer that has ever answered a "how do I" question on stackoverflow by saying "you shouldn't" is not answering the question, since the question is a shorthand for "conditional on the fact that I want to do this, what is the best way?".