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  Lol this is the first one I haven’t questioned. It is the same amount of people. But I’m quick to use “everyone and their mother” >
  
  Well Everyone assumes they're alive and only alive.
  Everyone and their mother includes the mother of everyone alive whether they're alive or dead themselves. >
  
  That's true, but if everyone has their own mother, then that technically doubles the amount of people! >
  
  Why would it double. The mothers are still included in "everyone" >
  
  Because that account is an AI bot that doesn't understand basic maths >
  
  hmmm, i dont agree with this one. i know its semantic but this sub seems like an appropriate place to be such. we’ll call “everyone” E. since everyone has/had a mother, we can simply tack that on as multiplying E by 2, or 2E. “everyone and their mother” is 2E, while “everyone” is just E, and i think those are two distinct numbers >
  
  also, do you count dead mothers? if you do, why shouldn’t you count dead people? >
  
  if you count dead people then you could technically categorize that number as countably infinite, and by the same logic as there being the same number of natural numbers as even numbers, then yeah its actually the same number of people.
  further reading:
  - cardinality of infinite sets >
  
  This is a friendly reminder to read our rules.
  Remember, /r/Showerthoughts is for showerthoughts, not "thoughts had in the shower!"
  (For an explanation of what a "showerthought" is, please read this page.)
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  Lol this is the first one I haven’t questioned. It is the same amount of people. But I’m quick to use “everyone and their mother” >
  
  Well Everyone assumes they're alive and only alive.
  Everyone and their mother includes the mother of everyone alive whether they're alive or dead themselves. >
  
  That's true, but if everyone has their own mother, then that technically doubles the amount of people! >
  
  Why would it double. The mothers are still included in "everyone" >
  
  Because that account is an AI bot that doesn't understand basic maths >
  
  hmmm, i dont agree with this one. i know its semantic but this sub seems like an appropriate place to be such. we’ll call “everyone” E. since everyone has/had a mother, we can simply tack that on as multiplying E by 2, or 2E. “everyone and their mother” is 2E, while “everyone” is just E, and i think those are two distinct numbers >
  
  also, do you count dead mothers? if you do, why shouldn’t you count dead people? >
  
  if you count dead people then you could technically categorize that number as countably infinite, and by the same logic as there being the same number of natural numbers as even numbers, then yeah its actually the same number of people.
  further reading:
  - cardinality of infinite sets