From: Hartmut (hartmut@ccc-hanau.de)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 16:17:54 MDT
> Among such people, the averagist would now proceed to kill all except one.
> It is exactly the same principle used if you were given a barrel full
> of potatoes, and told that you could remove them such that you should
> maximize the average weight of the potatoes in the barrel. The answer
> is that you just leave in the heaviest potato. In the same way, the
> averagist will kill all but the happiest person.
<sarcastic>
suppose when everybody knows that the least happy half of all people will get
killed they will try to be as happy as possible so that they are not part of
the "sad" half (if they are no Self-murder). Therefore the total happiness
will be increased too.
</sarcastic>
Hartmut
-- "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." -Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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