> -Does this mean a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush , but fifty in the bush is a different kettle of fish ?
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> CB
I think so. Depending upon your thoughts about the reliability of moral mathematics, it may be worth taking note of.
-- Luke
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> "Burke ever held, and held rightly, that it can seldom be right to©
> sacrifice a present benefit for a doubtful advantage in the future©.
> It is not wise to look too far ahead; our powers of prediction are
> slight, our command over results infinitesimal. It is therefore the
> happiness of our own contemporaries that is our main concern; we
> should be very chary of sacrificing large numbers of people for the
> sake of a contingent end, however advantageous that may appear©. We
> can never know enough to make the chance worth taking. There is this
> further consideration that is often in need of emphasis: it is not
> sufficient that the state of affairs which we seek to promote should
> be better than the state of affairs which preceded it; it must be
> sufficiently better to make up for the evils of the transition©"
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> --John Maynard Keynes
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