Nice try turning things around.
First, you missed my point once again that people sometimes use the term 'vanish' symbolically. Have you ever heard a sportscaster say, "That player vanished from the game." It means they didn't have an impact. It doesn't mean they literally disappeared. It's a colloquialism people use, even if a bit different from the strict definition.
You conveniently omitted the word "
confirmed" from "...no more sightings." Hmm, I wonder why? Because it refutes everything you're trying to argue?
Robin Blake himself used the word "vanished" to mean that Batman disappeared that night. But it would not have been established that Batman disappeared until some time later.
It's not wishful thinking at all. You're hung up on the notion that people are trying to convince themselves Batman wasn't retired, when all they're doing is imagining how people reacted to it. This could very well involve people making false, unconfirmed claims of having seen Batman even though they didn't.
And now you've resorted to the straw man counterargument about someone trying to argue that Batman wasn't retired. Nobody has said that, for the millionth time LOL. You keep insisting otherwise. Your entire argument is established upon deliberate misinterpretation of what has been clearly explained and laid out over and over.
You're clinging to the idea that someone's saying Batman didn't retire and turning the discussion into something completely different. You're making a mountain out of a molehill and kicking up a fuss because you think someone is claiming Batman wasn't retired after all.
I'm not sure why the idea others put forth ruffled so many feathers. It doesn't conflict with any established facts at all. It's people using their imagination to fill in the gaps. I saw Anno and others' posts being twisted around for people to drudge up age old arguments about things not in dispute. All I've done is clarify what they were saying so that people wouldn't get so worked up over thinking that someone's trying to claim Batman wasn't retired.
Yet, I see now what I have to become to dispel these fallacious counterarguments. Today I found out what I can't do.
For the last time nobody is saying Batman didn't retire at the end of TDK. They're saying it's possible people thought they saw Batman...in a dark alley...on a rooftop...etc. Their imagination. That's it.
Now if you'll excuse me I just saw Gandhi walking down the street. I guess he's not dead after all? Because we all know that when someone claims they saw something, it's 100% accurate. Nobody has ever claimed or thought they saw something that wasn't actually there.