Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Newton or einstein?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Madeleine Yeh <myeh at wap.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2005 07:20:55 -0700 (PDT)
>   Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Suppose we start with test groups of virgins,
> recently
> > deflowered virgins and "women of easy virtue"...
> :)
> >
>
>    You are assuming that human sacrifice has some
> benefit
> and are merely trying to see whether it matters
> which
> category the victims fall in.
>   You should try
>     a)  Do nothing
>     b) sacricifice unwanted animals
>     c)  sacrifice large valuable animals
>     d) sacrifice criminals
>     e)  sacrifice high priest/king
>
> Of course droughts aren't that common so it would be
> hard
> to get collect enough examples to reach a valid
> conclusion.  Also people tend to panic when faced
> with
> hunger and starvation and death.

LOL- I agree, Madeleine... I'm just starting off with
our control and two experiment groups, not even
positing a falsifiable hypothesis or means of
calibrating said "quasi-experiment". However, the
ideas you've offered above are all worth exploration.

I once started a discussion on holding a human
sacrifice at a convention. My argument was persuasive
enough (just for laughs, of course) that we came down
to arguing just who we were willing to sacrifice. All
in good fun, of course.

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