If the statement is true, then we will have to accept the conclusion.

I certainly would like to know what happened to the person who had that insight back then, if they actually followed it to its ultimate conclusion.

Second conclusion is that the ability to conceive of a given event in two different ways, such as cause something to go to someone and causing someone to have something, I think is a fundamental feature of human thought, and it's the basis for much human argumentation, in which people don't differ so much on the facts as on how they ought to be construed.