>The time learning those languages involuntarily is obviously not spent doing anything else. Is that not negative enough for you? No, it is not enough for me.

>The time learning those languages involuntarily is obviously not spent doing anything else. Is that not negative enough for you? No, it is not enough for me. The same could be said of any other school subject you don't have an interest in, a sort of grown up version of "When am I ever going to use trigonometry?" complaint you hear out of school kids. But since I'm a firm believer in "historical justice and other bullshit," I think we're at an impasse here.