unrealistic

It is unrealistic to expect every vulnerable system in the world to be patched at the same time, immediately after the patch is released.

An idea is just a pie in the sky, but a plan can be executed and is therefore more easily dismissed as unrealistic or flawed.

Expecting the disempowered to be humane towards those with power is at best unrealistic and at worst damaging.

Are you saying that it's fine having unrealistic fictional characters because it has no bearing on the real world?

Sorry, but mildly put, your definition of opt-in seems to be an unrealistic one.

I think it's unrealistic to try to get the candidate to solve real-world, day-to-day problems in an hour.

That is a poorly specified, unrealistic thought experiment with lots of hidden variables.

Only if we make the patently unrealistic assumption that the widget manufacturers have negligible market power (a perfectly competitive market).

A lot of take home problems are very unrealistic, so it's difficult to make the trade-offs that you'd normally make when trying to ship software.

No, I think we should put anyone who creates unrealistic fictional characters in prison.

Lesser, but still valid issues may remain when you are indeed guilty, but feel that plea bargaining or sentencing recommendations are out of proportion, unrealistic or whatever.

Being short and generally well behaved, I'd probably complain about unrealistic male characters who ride horses into the sunset and have perfect abs.

Arguing that it is immoral to design them in a way that sets "unrealistic" examples of behavior attacks the foundational premise of fiction itself.

I haven't, but I can imagine "why can't this be done faster?" becoming a tactic to intimidate people into working long hours to meet unrealistic deadlines that keep shrinking.

While the AP Stylebook advises using "anti-abortion" and "abortion rights", it seems unrealistic to expect people to parse their statements that carefully, indeed journalists need a guide to achieve this aim professionally.

As a counterpoint: I'd argue that characters like "He Man" (or many other male superheroes) or those in "Magic Mike" are a male equivalent and just as unrealistic.

Unrealistic salaries (that completely ignore any roi calculations), ideas that aren't grounded, and the need to get it all done super fast are what's going to cause a drought in capital for tech and then both good and bad ideas will suffer.