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The difference between impossible and merely rare is important: if something is merely rare, sometimes it can be trained and stop being rare.

Individual variability doesn't make people fly. It's reasonable to think there are things no one can do.



It's completely reasonable to think that no one can fly. But then we nibble at that, cuz we want to fly; and we add caveats to the rule. it becomes "People can't fly:"

- without mechanical assistance,

- without at least a wingsuit and a tall place to jump from,

- in standard gravity,

etc. So pretty much a re-affirmation of your first point.




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