half life of fright

a friend posed this statement:

What happens if you get scared half to death.. twice? *ominous tone*

um, you die? I mean, its like scared twice of half equals one, heck, that means your life is effectively scared to death, fully! Ha!

Genius people (like me), turn around and say, Nay, young padawan, you still have much to learn. Look at these figures and understand:

Lets consider your life represented by a bar, for your simple brain's comprehension's sake. Now, if you were to be SCARED HALF TO DEATH, it would mean you'd have, yes, yes, clever padawan! Half a life left!
Alright, enough rejoycing, little trailhand, there's still much that remains to be unfolded.

Now. Suppose you were scared, as we've defined, HALF TO DEATH again. Gasp! Does it mean the remaining life you had would be gone to the death of fright?

Think carefully now, little padawan.
No. I suppose you still need guidance. Gaze upon below figure and see if you understand:


Its simple math, you see. You can get scared half to death for an infinite amount of times, but never die. Your life just gets halved and halved but never reaches zero.

LESSON OF THE DAY: You cant get die from getting scared half to death, twice!

Well. Upon this brilliant explanation i was told to

"...get a life, you moron..."
"wtf yc where the hell you get so much time for such shit..."
"dude. (insert finger-flipping emoticon here)"
"oh man you need to get laid."
"errhhh...."

See? Genius is always misunderstood. And unappreciated.

- Yc out