RE: I need a volunteer
December 11, 2013 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2013 at 12:20 pm by Cyberman.)
(December 11, 2013 at 11:51 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: The fundamental error is that no one here claims that the only way to know what is in a box is to open it. For example, you could x-ray it, sonogram it, weigh it, rattle it, check it for labels, and so on. Those things can give enough evidence to justify reasonable conclusions about what's inside, just like a loved one's behavior can justify reasonable conclusions about whether he or she loves you.
Exactly; all those methods of investigation will yield the results that Rico's insistence on simply guessing about the box's contents will never do.
On that same note, I'm wondering whether a scan of Rico's brain would actually reveal anything there at all?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'