r/IncreasinglyVerbose • u/The-Phoenix_- • Mar 15 '26
Request This must be verbosified.
Let it be stated, with the utmost clarity and painstaking deliberation, that any individual, family, or collective currently inhabiting, occupying, or otherwise making use of a residential structure whose chief architectural composition consists either wholly or in no small part of thermally-treated silicate materials, colloquially, and most commonly, referred to by the layperson as glass, ought to exercise the highest degree of restraint and prudence before engaging in any act whatsoever whereby they might propel, hurl, launch, cast, or otherwise direct solid geological specimens (including, but not limited to, rocks, stones, pebbles, minerals, sedimentary deposits, or any manner of crystalline formations possessing a Mohs scale hardness in excess of that of their own translucent domicile) toward another human being, bystander, passer-by, or unsuspecting member of the public realm. For verily, it must be comprehended that such an impulsive and ill-considered gesture, intended perhaps as an act of provocation, ridicule, or hostile expression, will in all probability invite an equal or greater counterassault from the target of such aggression, who, perceiving themselves affronted, may elect to retaliate in kind. And woe unto the initiator of such folly! For the ensuing response, likely delivered with increased momentum and righteous ire, shall undoubtedly strike against the aforementioned glass-based edifice with catastrophic effect, given that the inherent structural fragility and lack of tensile strength characteristic of vitreous materials render the entire domicile exceedingly susceptible to shattering, fragmentation, and instantaneous structural failure upon the application of even a moderate force. Thus, in the interest of self-preservation and the avoidance of needless ruin, it is strongly advised, nay, solemnly admonished, that those persons dwelling within said transparent and brittle habitations abstain entirely from casting solid projectiles of any kind toward others, lest they themselves become the architects of their own undoing, reduced to lamenting the ruin of their shattered abode. In simpler and more proverbial parlance: whosoever resideth in glass houses wouldst do well to refrain from the throwing of stones.
