Quote Originally Posted by Februs View Post
PHIL 1101, perhaps? Or maybe it's 101 in the States ... Introductory Philosophy, in any case. Not complicated stuff. Unfortunately, what they don't teach in those classes is that theory does not always translate to fact, especially in practical application scenarios. In theory, yes. this goes both ways, but in practice? Not necessarily. Straight logical reasoning does not account for blind luck, only probability. In theory, the everything shakes out equally on paper, but if you tell that to an extraordinarily unlucky person and they'd think you're barking mad. No logic, no matter how straightforward, can account for the unknowable.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...