But, mind you, we are not measuring the altitudes or recesses, we are counting tangible things. If you had two brothers and you are the third one you cannot fix an imaginary zero point. You can't say you have negative two brothers oryou are alltogether negative three brothers. That would mean not only that you never existed, which would be zero but even less than non existant (three times non existant. If you speculate that you could use that as a number of your family, than I can still pose an philosophical question. How much is negatis three brothers. Not even zero, therefore you don't exist and your commentarry is non existant, namely fictional,
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