If someone wants to get hung up on the sticking point of why it sounds "ridiculous" in some circumstances, they're missing the point and probably doing so deliberately.
Nope, I'm not missing anything, deliberately or otherwise. I fully understand the reasoning behind Cooper's wording of that "rule".
Ok, good! Then it isn't "ridiculous" sounding at all, clearly.
Unfortunately this ISN'T insight. It's merely blinkered narrowness of mind, allowing themselves to miss the truth and elegant simplicity of the big picture message. Being tripped up on their own cleverness in finding niggling flaws.
Apologies.
"Niggling" just means:
nig·gle
/ˈniɡəl/
verb
1) gerund or present participle: niggling
cause slight but persistent annoyance, discomfort, or anxiety.
"
a suspicion niggled at the back of her mind"
synonyms: irritate, annoy, bother, provoke, exasperate, upset, gall, irk, rankle with
2) find fault with (someone) in a petty way.
"colleagues say he loved to niggle and criticize people"
synonyms: complain, quibble, nitpick, fuss, carp, cavil, grumble, gripe, grouse, moan
"
he niggles about the prices"
I used "niggling" to characterize the arguments against the phrasing because they are petty and irrelevant when comprehending the basic point and function of the rule. The rule works because those "niggling" exceptions don't matter in teaching and applying it.
No, I can't say that I have. I won't denigrate them or insult them or dismiss what they're trying to teach,
You already have.
And if you've attended training where they required or even ALLOWED someone to point an (oh, sure, unloaded) firearm at another person, spread the word and let the community of shooters and trainers deal with them. That is COMPLETELY unacceptable and is such poor training practice that any trainer who persists should be out of business before they get someone killed.
Ah, no. I simply called down proper opprobrium upon ANY group which would persist in using such needlessly dangerous techniques when trying to teach any principle of shooting or self-defense. (And I don't know WHAT they were trying to teach, exactly, so I couldn't have denigrated that. Just the technique used to illustrate it.)
YOU, yourself, decided to call them out by name as guilty of this. I would not have done so as I have no personal experience with them to back up the charge.