>You have the contradiction in your own paragraph:
>"as just as possible" vs "best possible way"
>
I can't see contradiction. The two have large
overlapping section.
I think I'd be most upset if I were of your crew;
they are NOT stupid, if it WERE the question of
life or death, they would have made the same choice
as you.
With hindsight you are aware a larger set of data i.e.
you know how long the gas actually lasted.
You behaved like a stingy employer, you should have
taken more gas. You lost weight, had an interesting
experience, the democratic choice was a good one.
Jay, I hate to be personal, but you'd brough up this
example, and it demonstrates that you count yourself
as apart from the rest of us, The Good and Benevolent
Leader With the Only Correct Solutions...
... and as often happens to such people - you are wrong!
Eva
>
>A few years ago, I was skippering my sailboat on a 50 day trip from Guam to
>San Francisco. Sailboats carry a finite amount of propane for heating
>drinks and cooking. Moreover, if one runs out of anything a thousand miles
>from land, one is out for the remainder of the trip.
>
>We took the great circle route and it got quite cold in the northern
>latitudes. My four crew members liked hot chocolate and coffee before going
>on watch. However, I informed the crew that if they used propane to heat
>their drinks every time they went on watch, we would run out before reaching
>San Francisco.
>
>I assumed if we ran out of propane the worst would be that we all would lose
>a little weight, but since everyone could stand to lose a few pounds
>anyway, I decide to let the crew decide. They decided to take a chance and
>keep heating their drinks.
>
>Well, we ran out of propane about half way across. Can you imagine eating
>raw brown rice? It was a memorable experience. Collectively we lost about
>100 pounds.
>
>Had the crew forgone the hot drinks, they would not have suffered any
>harmful effects and we wouldn't have run out of propane. The "just" answer
>was to have hot drinks, but the "right" answer was not to have hot drinks.
>Had there been lives at stake, I wouldn't have given them the choice.
>
>A world that is over carrying capacity and about to run out of fuel is just
>like my sailboat, except for one thing. If the fuel runs out this time,
>billions are going to die. I wouldn't give them the choice.
>
>Jay -- www.dieoff.com
>
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