11/3/10

A 30-Minute Detention for Eating Your Relatives

The crime should always fit the punishment, so be careful when you commit a dastardly act--read the statutes and case histories in advance to make sure your choice of evils doesn't net you more chastisement than you bargained for.

Here's a picture of a York chocolate cat, along with some information.

And here is a picture of the Titanic entirely modeled in chocolate.

When making your choice between these two, keep in mind that the cat will be a friend for a long time, as long as you do everything he or she asks of you. The chocolate model will ask nothing, but will only be with you for a few days.

So choose both.

Which brings us to the problem of the ethics of choice, in which humans are assumed to want more rather than less of a good. This is thought by many economists to be rational, but their interpretation of rational is strictly defined to, "mean that an individual acts as if balancing costs against benefits to arrive at action that maximizes personal advantage."

So here, to maximize your personal advantage by giving you super powers, is a chocolate bunny.

Grab your share quickly, or the economists will be disappointed.

In the words of Pink Floyd, "MONEY!" Well, that was one of their words--there were more.

No worries.

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