Paul Stenquist wrote: <And part of what you pay for is imagery. If a high priced product makes you < feel good about yourself, then perhaps it's worth the money. If image and < perceived value were taken out of the equation, life would be rather boring.
Then why not substitute placebos whenever possible and save ourselves some cash? If certain alternative therapies--say, foot reflexology--work principally by the power of suggestion, let's give the unemployed a one-day training course in the basic manipulations and the mumbo-jumbo, and heal the sick for a $10 session. Hey, maybe I'll buy my wife one bottle of Chanel No. 5. When it's empty, I'll refill it with the clone, claiming I discarded the old bottle and bought her a new one. OK, so I'm omitted some of the necessary logistics. But if she'd be none the wiser, why not? How are matters worse? I routinely pose the following question to husbands: If there was a jewelry item that your wife wanted, and you could afford only the manmade copy, would you buy it for her and pass it off for the real thing if you knew she'd never try to sell it and I could somehow guarantee you that no one else would ever know?" The husband usually replies, "I guess I would, sure." The wife glares at him and snaps, "Over my dead body!" Why should she object? (But then, having seen The Matrix, I don't understand why we shouldn't just let the humans "exist" in their dreamworld.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
