All talk about "internal representations" and internal or external difference registration or detection, and so on, is beside the point.
The author of the ransom note blaming park workers for the theft was never found and is beside the point.
How he feels about this custom and whether he participates in these displays is beside the point.
That the resulting improvised 'lecture' may not always withstand in every detail a critical post-mortem is perhaps beside the point.
This is wrong but also beside the point.
In such cases, any talk about safeguarding their rights is usually beside the point.
Beside the point because in the appeal quoted above, facts are made secondary to belief, and belief is a place beyond doubt itself.
Questions concerning the reasons and purposes of the technological environment are beside the point.
