Some defenders of perfect being theology have ridiculed the idea that an absolutely perfect being might be only contingently perfectly good, for even if a being were to exhibit all of the marks of perfect goodness up to a certain time, we would have no basis to think that the absolutely perfect being would not break bad at some point in the future (Rogers 2000, p. 122).
But since his Stanley thermos had a stainless steel shell and absolutely wouldn't break no matter what, he'd never have to purchase a replacement.
"There is just no doubt in my mind that if there were a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition, we, the Liberal Democrats, would absolutely insist that government would not break the bank.
Reflecting on the role the Lib Dems would have in a possible Lib-Lab coalition, he said: "There is just no doubt in my mind that if there were a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition, we the Liberal Democrats would absolutely insist that government would not break the bank".
But he warned that Labour would have to change its attitude to public spending, saying: "There is just no doubt in my mind that if there were a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition, we the Liberal Democrats would absolutely insist that government would not break the bank".
"They're absolutely not allowed to break character," Wai Lin emphasises later.
Labour's vice-chairman, Lucy Powell, says that the fact that the pledges were set in stone did not imply that "he's absolutely not going to break them or anything like that".
Asked by BBC Radio 5 live if carving the party's main manifesto commitments in stone made them more believable to voters, Ms Powell said: "I don't think anyone is suggesting that the fact that he's carved them into stone means that he is absolutely not going to break them or anything like that".
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said it was "some weird commie slab", and Lucy Powell, then the vice-chair of Labour's campaign, added to the party's woes when she told 5 Live: "I don't think anyone is suggesting that the fact that he's carved them in stone means he's absolutely not going to break them or anything like that".
Asked on BBC Radio 5 live if carving them in stone made them more believable, Ms Powell said: "I don't think anyone is suggesting that the fact that he's carved them into stone means that he is absolutely not going to break them or anything like that".
