If I cut myself shaving in two places with one motion of my razor, how many cuts have I made?

If you ask me to make these cuts with a chop saw (or mitre saw if you prefer) I am making 1, 2 and 2 cuts. Where one cut is defined as pulling the trigger on the saw arm and pressing the handle down.

The answer to this question is open for debate. You see you didn't specify whether you cut all the way through resulting in two halves of a person with one cut on one of them. And which one!

You would call that one cut?

The joke is that some people in this thread are contesting the correct answer to the question in the OP...

Unless you have some kind of vice holding that piece of wood together, you're making 3 cuts.

As I stated downthread: If you ask me to make these cuts I am plugging in my chop saw (or mitre saw if you prefer) I am making 1, 2 and 2 cuts. Where one cut is defined as pulling the trigger on the saw arm and pressing the handle down.

Your "vice" will be my left hand pushing the wood against the fence and towards the stop block. Do you do a lot of woodworking?

For anyone else initially as confused as I was, dfc is saying that after the first cut, they would stack the resulting two pieces for the 2nd cut with the chop saw.