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From: jbf@ccieng5.UUCP (Jens Bernhard Fiederer)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: selection of apples
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 12:03:56 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 27 12:03:56 1984
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With the choices:

(1)	TRY FOR (not take!) any apple that appeals to you
(2)	Accept or reject proferred apple

choice number one is not obviously superior.  If a huge majority of apples
are not interested when you try for them, the wasted effort can be
tremendous.  Number 2 sounds marvelously effortless, but may be rather
frustrating, when, in fact, no apples proffer themselves (or the ones that
do are invariably full of worms).

However, I would rather be in a situation where the apples normally wander
into my clutches by magic, and I can STILL make a #1 type effort when
necessary.  2 is easier to change to 1 than vice versa, because changing
2 to 1 necessitates changing your behavior, while changing 1 to 2 necessitates
altering the nature of apples in general.

Azhrarn
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