dear_mun | The main reason this Conan has never made friends with a Sherlock

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The main reason this Conan has never made friends with a Sherlock

I am not a canon purist, and I will thank you to stop making jokes about it.

It is simple. None of these people who bear the name Sherlock can possibly compare to the brilliance of the original Holmes. I don't see what is so hard to understand about that.

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The Sherlock Holmes I'm now living with figured me out in less than twenty minutes.

I've lived across the hall from a Holmes for a year without any discoveries.

Really? I would have thought for sure the one person we could never hope to fool would be Him.

Exactly! He's grown suspicious a few times, but never to the degree I would expect from someone at Holmes' level. And he insulted Doyle.

... and yet, there you go, proving your mundane right.

I do believe that thinking no adaptation can hold a candle to the original is the textbook definition of a canon purist.

...Oi. This is Holmes we're talking about.

Oh, forgive me. I thought it was Gomera we were discussing. My mistake.

Gomera has nothing to do with this. Anyone taking up the name of Holmes should have more respect for Doyle.

You're right, of course.

Of course I am.

And also wrong.

[What now? :3]

[He folds his arms.]

Explain.

It's all a matter of perception.

I would have called it a matter of opinion.

I wouldn't. Perception is a powerful tool which represents how one visualizes the world. Often our perceptions represent underlying beliefs and function of the world around us. We may not entirely be able to choose how we perceive things. They simply are. As an example, suppose my visual acuity is such that all things are rendered orange. This is not by any fault of my own. You would appear orange to me. That is my truth.

Opinions are distinct from this in that they are active thoughts and cognition that are guided by our perceptions. If, for example, a shade of purple or green looks disgusting to me in my orange-tinted world, it may not have anything to do with the color itself but rather how I am able to visualizing it. It is a divergent opinion based on subjective perception. Would I be wrong to not liking those shades of purple or green?