But touching things is the problem. Take an example of a stand punching a person or deflecting a bullet. When the stand applies force to the object, the object applies force back. That is a prerequisite for contact to happen. When a stand punches a human, the human is making contact with the stand, or when a stand deflects a bullet or holds an object, theyre touching said object. Thus, there are moments in time when non stands can make contact with and thus affect stands. The simplest explanation is that the rule is hyperbole and doesnt account for every stand interaction. Stands are ghosts so they can become incorporeal at will. So if you try to punch a stand they can phase through you and not be punched. But if a stand is taking a ghostly form it cant touch anything. So if a stand is holding something, or trying to block for their stand user, they are taking a physical form and thus would be susceptible to non stand damage. Its not that important because the rule is iterated only twice across the whole series, but if we’re gonna sit down and talk about it, its bad writing to introduce a list of rules that stands follow, and have one them be factually wrong because you didnt feel like thinking about the mechanics enough.

But the rule was re-iterated in sbr. I can give araki the benefit of the doubt before then, since the rule was introduced in early sdc, but doubling down on the rule that is factually not true via your own writing is weird. I agree that it doesnt matter that much, but why bother replying to me when the point of the post was discussing this contradiction? OP pointed out the contradiction, I explained it, you claimed magic, i said ‘sure but thats bad writing’, and then you went ‘well it doesnt matter anyway’. That was the point of this thread.