Originally Posted by Iucounu
Originally Posted by eldertree
Originally Posted by JonLaw
In that case, isn't the appropriate response to say something along the lines of:

"I am profoundly more than you in ways in which you can only begin to comprehend. We have spoken enough for now and I grow tired of your questions. You are dismissed."
No, because one is expressing appropriate personal boundaries, and the second is just snotty.
What about if he'd added, "... so that I may focus on creating my race of atomic supermen, to take over the world!"? Wouldn't that take the edge off?

That's pretty much where I was trying to go with it.

They have to understand that they are already obsolete.

Kind of like no one buys Apple II computers anymore. Who wants an Apple II when you can get an iPod, an iPad, an iPhone, and an iRandomOverpricedUnderpoweredConsumerGood.