I know a lady who is cousins with one of these parents , and here’s what happened to spark this: After one of the teams scored a run, one of the parents made a joke about it being a good thing that numbers were just constructions of abstract thought. He knew this would get under the skin of another group of parents who are ardent believers in Plato’s position that numbers were “real” in an absolute sense and, predictably, they fire back with a bunch of hooting about how the first guy and his friends were being overly formalistic and that numbers didn’t just describe relationships between points or sets, but existed in a fundamental if not tangible way.
Of course, then the whole thing turned into a shitshow when one of them (the lady I know wasn’t sure who, but probably the guy in teal shorts who smacked that guy from behind) start yelling about how all these discussions just end up in ontological arguments that can only end in existential nihilism, and the shit was on.
Typical little league nonsense.
