This isn't exactly moronic, so it's not in the Moron Mail category. I just felt like commenting on it. Perhaps I'll put this on the unicorn site in some form. The name, IP address, email address, and other identifying aspects of the writer will not be revealed, of course. Here's the message, though:

If unicorns exist we need prove or everione will think your sayng something that is not true. Take a photo.

First of all, why should anything, including a unicorn, be obliged to prove it exists?

Secondly, saying something that's "not true" is pretty shaky ground when it comes to certain topics. How do we define "truth" anyway? Truth can be metaphorical, allegorical, it can be literal, it can be fact-dependant, it can depend on other factors. Is "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Anderson "the truth"? Well, no, it's a work of fiction, and it's not even true that most ugly ducklings grow up to be swans (most of us grow up to be ugly ducks), but is it some sort of lie? No, and why would anyone think that it is?

What is truth when it comes to fiction? I've heard that Mario Puzzo's "The Godfather" is very close to the actual lifestyle of the Mafia of the era in which it was set, that it "rings true" even though it's a work of fiction. Is it therefore "the truth"?

There's a big difference between being truthful and being literal, and sometimes one has nothing to do with the other.

As for photos, well, I'm pretty good with Photoshop. I could probably take a photo of a horse or a goat and combine it with a couple other things or hand paint some bits and get a reasonably convincing "unicorn" out of it. Photos don't mean anything. There are photos of Bigfoot, too, and even film footage, and there's a photo of the Loch Ness Monster, but they prove nothing. There's nothing about photographs that are particularly "truthful".

Anyway, I'm not sure what point the writer was trying to make, but it's pretty sure that s/he missed all the points I was trying to make.

And not for the first time and probably not for the last, I think I'll just add that it's probably not necessary to take the contents of a personal website on the topic of unicorns too seriously. Just because it's on the World Wide Web doesn't mean it means anything. After all, anybody with a computer and a connection to the net can publish whatever they want on the web. Or write anything they want in their personal weblog...