Smart contracts in a real world setting that must scale can not exist without Casper.
The virtual machine for smart contracts runs, but any sort of real world scaling of the virtual machine requires Casper.
I have explained why Casper can't possibly work and my point is unarguable.
Yes, without Casper scaling is out of the question (or impossible even with Casper according to you).
I thought the question being asked was whether Casper had something to do with the EVM itself or not.
Casper is the thing that makes ETH different and let it be a smart contract Running blockchain?Is casper the base for the Smart contract executor?