I love coming up with ideas, poking holes in those ideas, and trying to think of every way I can to make the idea fail.  For even more fun, I like to try to twist ideas into things that they were never really meant to be.  If an idea stands to that kind of poking and prodding, maybe it isn’t so bad.  Playing my own devil’s advocate, as it were.  I find this activity endlessly entertaining.  It’s like a little game – Can I disprove the idea?  Can I find an exception?  Can I twist it so that it does something more or different than intended?  Are one of these failure modes more interesting than the intended purpose?

So much so that I feel compelled to do it all the time – even with other people’s ideas.  Ideas can be like children and people can be similarly possessive or protective of them.  So, I suppose it’s not entirely surprising that this little game of mine isn’t always welcome.

Why do I mention any of this?

Upon seeing the phrase, “only good things come from CC” I was immediately tempted to think of the most evil possible application of CC.1

1. Sorry @kio! [↩]