In a recent study, a detailed analysis of the current situation was undertaken in order to derive the current trends. These were then carefully extrapolated, within the constraints of the relevant parameters. The resulting projections indicate a high probability (> 0.68) that the situation will have infelicitous consequences.
If you have never studied the topic, or given it two minutes thought, and just repeat the drivel you get from the media, how do you end up “entitled” to an opinion?
Pascal’s wager is about belief in the existence of God in the Christian sense. Calvin is concerned about the afterlife, which is a different subject. It is logically possible for God to exist, but there be no afterlife, and for there to be an afterlife without God. There is a Pascal’s wager-like quality about Calvin’s position. 1. If there is no afterlife, and you don’t watch TV in this life, then you will never watch TV.2. If there is no afterlife, and you watch TV in this life, then you will watch TV.3. If there is an afterlife, and you don’t watch TV in this life, then you will be able to watch TV in the afterlife.4. If there is an afterlife, and you watch TV in this life, then you will also be able to watch TV in the afterlife.
So obviously the safest bet it to watch TV in this life. At least you will get some TV.
(I’m assuming that TV is available in the afterlife, but if it isn’t, what would be the point to an afterlife?)
Well done!