[MD] Choosing Chance

Arlo Bensinger ajb102 at psu.edu
Fri Jan 22 07:41:54 PST 2010


[Craig]
I guess we just disagree about this. I freely choose vanilla ice 
cream.  Whether I would NEVER choose broccoli ice cream or it is just 
HIGHLY IMPROBABLE I would ever or I would DIE before I would choose 
it, is irrelevant.

[Arlo]
Fair enough. Final comment I'd just like to toss out is to consider 
it this way. You can't deny that no matter how unlikely, if for 
whatever reason in the spur of the moment, you *could* choose 
broccoli ice-cream. The potential is there, you simply choose not to 
act on it. That potential, to me, is probability. So long as you have 
the freedom to choose, some probability must exist for each choice. 
If you eliminate that probability, then there is not a choice.

[Craig]
Love is never having to choose broccoli ice cream.

[Arlo]
There is a Thai restaurant near here that serves red-bean ice-cream. 
I hesitated first few times I saw it, but curiosity (and possible a 
few glasses of wine) won me over and I gave it a try. Delicious! And 
now I order it every time I eat there.

"Never say never." (Romeo Void)




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