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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5079509" data-attributes="member: 80487">There appears to be a language barrier here, Keefe and Ridcully, but your English is better than my German. Let us try the "universal language", eh?1 > 0.That arithmetic statement summarizes the logical statement I made: A reason is likely to produce a better choice than no reason."We should not do that, because we know that it has worked in the past" is not reason but absurdity.When I am hungry, I do not put a banana in my ear; I put it in my mouth because inference from previous experience is more successful than random behavior.That is the substance of my statement. It is elementary common sense based on observation of the way things work in the real world.It is the plain, reasonable answer to the question, "Why should tradition be any part of the decision process?"Now, if you in fact have some argument in favor of a particular other course, then that is a fine thing. Please do present it! That is quite a different matter than offering no reason -- indeed, no particular alternative about which to reason -- whatsoever.</blockquote>