Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: life rafts & Jeff Message-ID: <810@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 10:36:20 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.810 Posted: Thu Apr 25 10:36:20 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Apr-85 07:14:40 EST References: <24855@lanl.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 22 > >>In article <5466@utzoo.UUCP> laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes: > >>...Stuck on a > >>life raft I have to decide whether it is necessary for me to eat > >>Jeff to survive... > > >Which goes to show that you can't base a philosophy on consequences, since > >there is no way to decide whether or not it is necessary to eat Jeff to > >survive. > > -- Scott > > True, I can't tell in advance that it will definitely be neces- > sary to eat Jeff. I can assume the worst, however, and eating Jeff > will certainly maximize my chances of survival. Look, can't all you murderous anthropophagists find someone else to chow down on? I'm rather choosey about who I allow to eat me. "But I'm not dead yet!" -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "This statement is true."