"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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So doing nothing is preferable to what we're doing now?

Binary.

Excludes the possibility of doing anyting "different" than what we're
doing
now, and assumes that our present course is the only possible alternative
to
"doing nothing."

You are sitting in a tree and there is a lion at the base of the tree that
wants to kill you and eat you. You have a gun. How are you going to free
yourself from the tree?