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И снова к бесплатным завтракам и бесчестным таксистам - http://e-mir.dreamwidth.org/2209036.html?thread=13052428#cmt13052428

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[gns-ua.livejournal.com]

To discuss such topic is quite pointless. It looks much like "is Newton's gravity applicable when plane crashed into WTC" or "is Archimede's law applicable when Titanic drowns without having enough lifeboats onboard".

Let's say "no, they aren't, we must just ignore them because people are suffering". Why, excellent idea.

But in reality, on Titanic we personally could be as altruistic as we wish yet Archimede's rule continues to work and is neither "fair" nor "unfair". Laws of the Nature are not about justice.

[myrumyr.livejournal.com]

Хороший пример. Одни на Титанике старались спасти женщин и детей (даже ценой собственной жизни). Другие же вспомнили о том, что "Laws of the Nature are not about justice".

[gns-ua.livejournal.com]

You got it absolutely wrong. Laws of the Nature are not about justice, and not about what we shall do.

Just to remember, most of 57 millionaires on Titanic died . There were Astor, Guggenheim, Straus with his wife, Widener and son, who deliberately refused to escape. They were wealthiest people in the world - e.g. Astor could buy two hundreds of titanics for himself.

Regardless of this, what you do say is rather like - "why, let cancel Archimede's for it is unfair". Would be nice if we could.

[myrumyr.livejournal.com]

Поведение таксиста, увозящего человека с места теракта не регулируется известными мне законами физики.
Так что, аналогия некорректна.

[gns-ua.livejournal.com]

Yet with subway being suspended you must spend something, either your time or your money. That's what is being regulated by uncancellable law of Nature.

And if all drivers in good will are going to take usual price from everyone - yet you will pay _both_ your time and your money. In most cases I would like to have an option to pay _just_ money.