it was never about practicality or common sense. let alone fairness.
it was about greed.
Attacking what you imagine to be people's motivations is easy.
Refuting the actual computer science and game theory is hard:
note the non-technical assumption that idiot makes in his post upon which he bases all his technical mis-steps. he's wrong. where Bitcoin XT is headed, there's a big enough pie to bring every miner currently involved in the space along for the ride. and the miners know this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or65M4Ht4Kk