It’s funny how ideas can still look ridiculous on the merits even when they work

Like how “dead bodies can be brought back to life with a jolt of electricity” is haha woo-woo at the same time there’s a drive to put emergency defibrillator kits in public places

Or how ridiculous the turn-of-the-century anarchist “we will destroy monarchy and government in general by personally assassinating individual rulers” was but then Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand, bringing about the destruction of age-old monarchies and governments in general