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- From: acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng)
- Subject: Re: Need puzzle help: eye colour enigma
- References: <1993Jan19.143459.13275@waikato.ac.nz> <C1304p.6K8@cs.psu.edu> <93021.120138RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>
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- Originator: acheng@shalom.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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- Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:45:23 GMT
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- In article <93021.120138RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu>, <RVESTERM@vma.cc.nd.edu> writes:
- >[Detail not repeated]
- >... As i posted a long time ago, being logical, they
- >take a clue from mister spock: "the needs of the many outweigh the needs
- >of the few, or the one".
-
- Hm... why is it logical so? Wouldn't it be more logical for everyone
- to live? In that case, the islanders decide logically "to nullify this
- stupid tradition immediately." Everyone lives on in peace.
-
- Or everyone comes to the conclusion, "Well, 199 people know my eye
- color. Now this guru knows my eye-color and none of them has to die
- because of that knowledge. So, there is no logical ground for me to
- die because I become one of the crowd who know my eye-color."
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- Another similar line of thought, "I know the eye color of 199 people
- before. I just know the eye color of the guru too. Nice green. If I
- don't die of knowing 200 people's eye color, there is no logical ground
- for me to die just because I know the eye color of one more person."
-
- "How could this idiot be a guru when he does not know the no-no here.
- Why should I listen to his baloney?"
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