Posted on 12/07/2004 2:22:10 PM PST by mft112345
Crocodile and the Baby Paradox
A crocodile swipes a baby, but he tells the mother he will return it if the mother is able to correctly answer a single question: "Am I going to return your baby?" The mother says, "No, you will not."
How can her answer be correct, though? If he returns the baby because her prediction was accurate, then her prediction wasn't accurate after all, and by the set up of the problem, he must keep the baby. If he keeps the baby because her prediction was inaccurate, then her prediction was correct and he must return the baby.
The easiest answer is the croc keeps the baby. The mother was deluded to think a croc could speak and be incapable of lying. But, that's cheating. The problem requires us to assume this speaking croc is bound to his word.
Credit the stoics for devising unsolvable problems involving baby deaths.
Credit Roe for giving us limitless abortion on demand with no end in sight.
What if the crocodile just eats the baby, then grabs the mom, pulls her under, gives her the old death roll, then sets her under a ledge to tenderize for a bit then eats her, too?
That's the difference between a croc and an abortionist. The croc does it for food, the abortionist for greed.
With Roe v. Wade, the mother gives the crocodile her baby and doesn't give a crap what he does with it.
Exactly. That's why I object to the use of animals as metaphors for Abortionists. It treats teh animals unfairly to be compared to human monsters...
What if the mother exercises her second amendment right to blows the croc's head off with a shotgun, then eats IT instead?
What if the mother parts his eyes with a 44 magnum?
I think the original form of this paradox was some philosopher from Crete who said "All Cretins are liars."
Then she gets a tasty treat, and maybe some new luggage to boot. Until the Florida Wildlife Department comes after her.
What if she says "You will eat my baby after I answer 'Yes'"??? She would get her baby back.
Ignoring the point of the post for a moment, my answer would be "You will, or you'll become a dozen pairs of shoes, plus a couple of wallets."
Neighbor 1: "Yes, it is, and people around here seem extremely friendly"
Man: "So what is it you do for a living?"
Neighbor 1: "I am a professor at the University, I teach deductive reasoning"
Man: "Deductive reasoning, what is that?"
Neighbor 1: "Let me give you an example. I see you have a doghouse out back. By that I deduce that you have a dog."
Man: "That is right."
Neighbor 1: "The fact that you have a dog, leads me to deduce that you have a family."
Man: "Right again."
Neighbor 1: "Since you have a family I deduce that you have a wife."
Man: "Correct."
Neighbor 1: "And since you have a wife I can deduce that you are heterosexual."
Man: "Yep."
Neighbor 1: "That is deductive reasoning."
Man: "Cool."
Later that same day...
Man: "Hey I was talking to that new guy who moved in next door."
Neighbor 2: "Is he a nice guy?"
Man: "Yes, and he has an interesting job."
Neighbor 2: "Oh, yeah what does he do?"
Man: "He is a professor of deductive reasoning at the University."
Neighbor 2: "Deductive reasoning, what is that?"
Man: "Let me give you an example. Do you have a dog house?"
Neighbor 2: "No."
Man: "Fag."
It tastes like chicken. That's what happens.
What if the Crocodile is the natural father of "crocobabe" and takes the child pursuant to an emergency sole custody award, but hen the non-custodial parent mother retrieves the baby and heads for the State line? Amber alert?
True or False?
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remember how popular dead baby jokes were in the early '70s? curious.
ROTFLMAO
Yeah, that may be true, but I wouldn't mind seeing both become extinct since neither serves any useful purpose.
My thinking too!
The mother says just a minute, let me give it some thought. Remembering her NRA training, she removes the 44 from her vest pocket, spins, puts one in the brain of the croc, takes the baby and politely says "yes! Thanks."
LOL
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