Well since A NON FARMER has put his arguments to me so well and so articulately, I bow in respect. You are a true drama llama.

Which is, after all why we all here right? For the drama. I know I am.

Such is the nature of the internet.

Nice hissy fit!

I’ll exclude myself from your sorry sack of idiots NF and thank you for your excellent response to my question: "How do you judge what is ‘apparent reasonableness?’ “.

Hey Bugsy,
While keeping on topic -
Are you any relation to 'Squashed Bee"?
Got the nick name when he fell backwards off his scooter attempting a wheelstand, here, New year's eve 1970.
For years afterward the slogan went - "Hop on a Honda - and SPLAT".
Two bulging shiners for eyes once they picked out the speedo and tacho.
The stripes - go figure yourself.

My Dear Ludwig,
My most profound apologies.
You wanted me to provide my interpretation of – “apparent reasonableness”.
Actually, I’d lost track for the mo..

I’m sure I’d written a reply and it’d be there in queue somewhere.

It would have been sent along to your eminence immediately except for the attentions of what I (if I were old-guard Communist Chinese) might call the “Snapping dogs of reactionism” (your eminence naturally discluded).

However, faced with what has been rolling in from all sorts such as has caused us to laugh so much as to compromise our bladders (Graham won’t let me say we’ve been p*g ourselves laughing) at what’s been rolling up at such tour de force of discourse about free speech –

Where was I?
You want definitions.
Master; your word is my command –

‘Apparent’ – by way of appearing; (being able to recognize) a thing before a person, in plain view – antonym, virtual

‘Reasonableness’ – a societal concept, also at law; to be reasonable within accepted social and legal standards determined by custom and precedent – ‘A reasonable person aware of fact and circumstance would etc. – antonym ‘unreasonableness’; precedent, ‘Wednesbury Unreasonableness’.

“Apparent reasonableness” – towards a person being ‘reasonable’ in a GIVEN situation while being aware of fact and custom. A moot point whether personal attitudes signify.

‘Virtual unreasonableness’ – a play with words. May also describe the situation of my having to explain plain English to you here on the internet.

Observations –
Clearly, I shouldn’t have to explain English to those demanding it while apparently (that word again) pretending superiority.
If I have mistaken a benign, proactive or allegedly helpful comment in the vale of hate above then – mea culpa – I’m only human.

Conclusions –
I do not pretend to be completely innocent myself.
I admit to being hasty and confusing intended meaning in these threads.
I do not mind helping Ludwig with his English comprehension and I would value it if he gives me hell for what I’ve written here.

But he probably won’t read it anyway.

"I doubt whether ever in life I have ever seen such a sorry sack of idiots "

Well now you're just flirting with us.