Suppose you were travelling by yourself in a spaceship. Suddenly you run out of fuel. The onboard computer tells you there are only two planets nearby where you can land:
Planet Weaksarus: All the humans who live here are of much lesser intelligence than yours. If you land on this planet your arrival will be marked as an amazing event. You will be greatly admired by the technology you bring and will probably regarded as a demigod by your superior intelligence and skills. You will very likely not be required to work at all, since you will be treated as a king. Future scholars will record your arrival as a great event in the history of Weaksarus.
Planet Intelligentarus: If you decide to land on this planet your arrival will not be much of an event at all. The humans there, of much higher intelligence than yours, will look with pity at your primitive ship and promptly ignore you. In order to make yourself useful in this planet you will need to find work pronto and it will probably be very mundane for their standards. There will be likely no recording of your arrival at this planet in its history at all.
Once you decide to land on either of these planets you will not be able to leave again, since Weaksarus cannot produce the special fuel needed for you spaceship, and Intelligentarius does not allow its citizens to leave.
Would you really rather live in Weaksarus? Why would Intelligentarus be a better choice?
Originally posted at the Internet Infidels
jueves, 16 de agosto de 2001
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