I agree much more with Rob’s principles than with my guess at projectionconfusion’s principles. But looking just at PC’s literal statements: yeah, it is stupid anyone thought manor house vs castle was a relevant argument. The question is whether you think it’s a good idea to spend lots of money on a large building at all (I think it can be but obviously depends on specifics), and if so, does it matter if it’s a nice building whose previous owners were rich. I think it’s obvious the latter doesn’t matter, but for people for whom it does matter I don’t think it matters exactly what kind of large old rich person building it is.
So I do view people arguing manor house vs castle as conceding that a castle would be bad optics, and that this is dumb because none of the differences between manor houses and castles are relevant to the question. I just don’t care about the optics of buying large old rich people buildings.
I agree much more with Rob’s principles than with my guess at projectionconfusion’s principles. But looking just at PC’s literal statements: yeah, it is stupid anyone thought manor house vs castle was a relevant argument. The question is whether you think it’s a good idea to spend lots of money on a large building at all (I think it can be but obviously depends on specifics), and if so, does it matter if it’s a nice building whose previous owners were rich. I think it’s obvious the latter doesn’t matter, but for people for whom it does matter I don’t think it matters exactly what kind of large old rich person building it is.
So I do view people arguing manor house vs castle as conceding that a castle would be bad optics, and that this is dumb because none of the differences between manor houses and castles are relevant to the question. I just don’t care about the optics of buying large old rich people buildings.