Let's Talk About Population Control

[a500lbgorilla]

I get the joke.

Think of it as assuming up is up and down is down. If we were to assume up is not necessarily up, well, we wouldn't be able to make sense of related things.

:^)

If up were down, we'd still manage just the same.

[wufwugy]

:^)

If up were down, we'd still manage just the same.

That's not the only other option though. Up is either up (or some other exact designation) or it's maybe up, maybe down, maybe something else. The whole maximizing utility thing arises from economists using the assumption that people are always trying to have more good than have more bad. So far this appears to be a reasonable assumption.