Originally posted by Darkware
A situation where the individual would absolutely HAVE to take one apple would not exist if both sides of the equation were perfect. So... you're basically basing everything on an environment that would never exist in the first place.
Having to take one apple does not affect whether or not the situation could be constructed. Clauses like this are often added to situations of 'choice' in life - for example... you are very sick and your mother opens a container of identical pills and tilts it toward you, she then says "You must take one of these."
The apple scenario was impossible from the beginning. Because perfection does not exist in the universe no one has a body that is perfectly symmetrical and ambidextrous, 2 apples cannot be perfectly identical and they cannot be placed precisely the same distance from the person etc, etc. So you actually brought up the evironment that would never exist in the first place.
The initial situation was a choice of the following: both, none, left apple or right apple. My addition just limits the situation to: left apple or right apple for the purpose of discussion.
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R-Tillery, what about choices between bad & bad; good & good; neutral & neutral; neutral & bad; neutral & good? The apple situation would be neutral & neutral
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