I have witnessed multiple offices get nothing done for entire days after someone started a "is a hot dog a sandwich" debate.
I assure you, no matter how well thought out you think your argument is, someone else has already countered it. It's a problem just like the Pluto problem: there's no definition of sandwich that will encapsulate everything you and Tim from accounting both think the definition is, and will one day require a new definition to concretely rule on whether a hot dog is or isn't a sandwich. (Just like with Pluto.)
All I can say for sure is nearly half of the people who've ever had this debate are going to be really angry. (Just like with Pluto.)
I once paid $50 to run a Google Survey Rewards survey to get to the bottom of this, and the results were really interesting. Clear breakdowns along geographic lines as well as age range lines, meaning that depending on where you live and how old you are, you are likely to fall strongly on one side or the other.
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