If it's doing a disservice to language and logic, why are you engaging with it talking about what would be "thus allowed"? Because it's fun, is why. I'm not confused by it, I'm taking their word as literal and asked a non-serious question that would go well with a thinking_face emoji.
Well the reason on my part is quite simple: I am quite pedantic on semantics :)
Another reason is that I would say I do not particularly like the part "let's take words literally stripping the intended meaning", my intention was at least to show an opposition to such interpretation.
If you were having just fun then don't take this as a criticism, but I will continue to oppose such interpretations :)
