If the argument is "I didn't think about it," "no one will know the difference," or some such, it's a bad argument and the story is rightly excoriated.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"