But if you're facing forward you lean in to the couch and can see it as it is pulled away. If you are facing backwards and the couch is pulled away you are going to fall.
There is this constant force called Gravity, see. You may have heard of it, and that is the force that will prevent this from happening if you are the putz on the heavy end of the couch trying to go up stairs.
But he's not using Faye as a go between. There are no sides; Marten and Dora are not fighting. Faye was just a convenient point of contact since she was about to go see Dora.
Marten and Dora aren't
currently fighting because they have had no contact since the breakup, which was a pretty rough and hostile one due to Dora's "Fuck you I don't have to take this, I'm out!" when Marten was getting sick of never standing up for himself in an argument.
And the weight/distribution. Those couches aren't made of air (and if they were I'd suggest deflating them first.)
If it's light enough for Dora to take the heavy end going up the stairs, it really isn't that bad.
That sounds an extraordinary claim.
The progression is outlined briefly on Helping Psychology.com on one of their pages talking about personality trait theory, this isn't really that extraordinary a claim to make.
In any case, I was merely wanting to point out that you cannot simply say that "Marten shouldn't be involving Faye at all"; many people would disagree with you over whether it is necessarily inappropriate.
Argumentum ad populum is almost always wrong, you should know this.
You seem to define the acceptable world in terms of (what I presume are) your reactions to situations without being prepared to countenance others.
Why should I countenance reactions that I've observed as always leading to worsening a given situation as being good and valid reactions to a given situation?
Like, in this case, asking a friend to relay a message to an ex after a particularly nasty breakup where the friend doing the asking was also a bit of a drunken asshole to the person they're asking a favor of not long after the breakup. Is Faye not allowed to still be aggravated about it or (as I've interpreted how she acts around Marten in the comic) nowhere near as close a friend as she used to be after that? Is she not allowed to make that decision with regard to how she treats Marten?
You may think that way, and I may agree; but observation shows that many people simply cannot think in this manner.
That is irrelevant, since we were talking about whether or not it required actual intelligence to do and not perspective.
Odin, are you familiar with chaos theory? Even with only two or three variables, some systems become completely unpredictable! And again, you're stating that someone's opinion is wrong, a statement of absolutes. You really seem to prefer them, which makes you a hard pill to swallow at times...
Chaos theory doesn't say that systems become completely unpredictable, just that we're very bad at tracking all of the required variables at the precision required for some chaotic systems (never mind that the shorthand Crichton used in certain popular novels was wrong, but don't get me started on that).
Doesn't mean some people don't have trouble with it. 3-D visualization is not a universal skill.
Granted, but it isn't all that difficult to figure out that there should be two people at the heavy end of the couch when you're coming up on a corner in a stairwell (so that they can support the weight while the person at the light end lifts their end of the couch higher so the required turning radius to get the couch around the corner gets smaller).