DrRocket ([info]drrocketanski) wrote,
@ 2009-03-28 14:47:00
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Thought Experiment (or maybe a puzzle)
(I believe this very thing happened in Texas recently)  Suppose your society has had what may be the driest year on record (with all the negative consequences that relate).  If it is dry until Jan. 1, it will be a new record.  It is Dec. 31.  Do you hope it rains today?

Perhaps your answer speaks to the impossibility of a(n?) utopia?  Or (and?) our preference for that which is not embodied?

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[info]emmarie
2009-03-29 12:21 pm UTC (link)
My first impulse is to say no but then I immediately think of how this would affect me and many other people and I hope it rains. But were it like, one of those hottest day records in the middle of summer I always hope that the record is broken, I dont really know why, but it doesnt directly affect me in much of a negative way, unless i have to sit in my hot car until the air conditioning gets cold, and though old people without air conditioning seem to drop like flies on those days, none of them are related to me and therefore that thought is the farthest thing from my mind, unless posed as a question that I feel compelled to take time to think about.

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