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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Please discuss [Another way to look at is if you come across a farmer, whose farm is surrounded by foxes and cougars, and his chickens are getting eaten. The foxes are accusing the cougars of eating the chickens and the cougars are accusing the foxers of eating the chickens. If the farmer tell you that the cougars are not eating the chickens, but the foxes are, who would you trust in this case? Of course the farmer. If he tells you foxes, and you kill them, and it is really the cougars, he is still screwed. If he tells you the cougars are not the problem, the only reason he would tell you that is if the cougars are not the problem. He has no reason to lie.
But both the foxes and the cougars are unreliable because they have a strong reason to lie.
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If he's going to use an analogy, he could at least put some thought into an original one. I mean, how many times have we heard the old chicken-farmer-caught-between-the-cougars-and-foxes bit? He might as well have used that tired old Balloon-salesman-in-the-land-of-porcupines-and-puffer-fish analogy.
TM
