Hi Tom,
At 13:15 01/09/00 +0200, Thomas Lopatic wrote:
>[snip]
>
>Just compare the whole thing to a bowl of salad that a group of people
>is eating from. Once somebody finds a fly in it, everyone will stop
>eating from the bowl. Although now the fly is gone and there are now
>less flies in the bowl. And after all, each and every bowl of salad on
>this earth may potentially contain flies. Heh, human behaviour is quite
>irrational. :-)
you can also say: there are correctly prepared bowls and badly prepared ones.
when you take a bowl, you admit that it is probably correctly prepared.
when you
see a fly, then you _know_ for sure that it is not. That's why people stop.
That's the rationale behind your example. When you go to a restaurant, you
admit
that it is a clean one (otherwise, you chose another one). If something gets to
contradict this fact, then you know for sure that it is not as clean as you
thought,
and then you stop getting to this one.
more precisely, one has the choice between something that has certain
probability
to be good, and something that is proved to be bad. rejecting the "known
bad" is absolutely
rational.
Regards,
mouss
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