(August 30, 2015 at 12:59 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: [...]However, I'll propose a solution beginning with an analogy: just as a great chef might take great pleasure in preparing food for guests in his restaurant which he himself will never actually eat, so you might take personal satisfaction from the pleasure that you give to him. [...]
That's a retarded analogy. Having worked in a number of top-quality restaurants in London over the past 15 years, I can tell you, that all good chefs eat their own food. It's called "tasting". If you can't taste, you can't be a "great chef", or indeed - a chef at all.
You know what helps, when making a useful, accurate analogy? Knowing what you're talking about.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw