On the face of it, that appears absurd, since many such loans will be paid off, and those that default will not be total losses.
His anxiety about new words such as "mob" and "banter" now appears absurd.
Strange junk mail appears – absurd but expensively produced free magazines with names like The Hill and invitations to "wealth management" seminars, one promising that "fortunes are made during a boom, dynasties during a recession".
Waiving moral rights appears absurd, and not only for French authors.
It's easy to see how the public demands for blood might have built momentum for a case that, on its own, would appear absurd.
This would appear absurd if it weren't so familiar.
But laissez-faire appeared absurd, as well as morally abhorrent, to Keynes.
Mr Gilligan stuck to his guns - at the self-evident risk of appearing absurd.
The possibility that the universe wants, in some way, to become conscious will "appear absurd" or "strange", he warns.
Some political structures will appear absurd: Russia, Britain and France, three of the current, permanent, veto-bearing members of the U.N. Security Council, will have a combined population less than that of Indonesia.
But such a tiny minority holding on to such an outdated view on the right to exclusivity would increasingly appear absurd, as redundant as the royal family.
