User blog comment:DancePowderer/No Room at the Inn, Deductive Reasoning/@comment-4899461-20150612230102

I was always compelled by one of your arguments in regard to most controversial of issues: Sabo's death. For those of you too young to remember, a common topic on here over a year ago was if Sabo was dead or not. DP was famous for his belief that Sabo was dead. But in some of those old discussions, DP said something I was always swayed by:

"Oda wants us to believe that Sabo is dead, so we will categorize him as such until it's proven that he is alive."

I was thinking about this the other day in regard to our new controversy: The quite dead Monet and Vergo. Oda used many different scenarios, words, and images to convey the point that they are dead. Regardless of their actual fates, I will stand by the categorization of them as dead. If it's ever proven that they are alive, I will accept that easily and people coming to me with "I TOLD YOU SO" will find me quite boring and unfazed. Oda wants us to use deductive reasoning to see them as dead, and I stand by that.