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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] LOL! Interesting take there. I take it you originally wrote that in response to the current computer-bashing going on in the Officer's Lounge? ;) You're right, of course. If people want to eat apples, then they can. It's a matter of taste. (Literally!) Although you can't take the analogy perfectly when you bring in the Apple Companies and the Orange Companies... For instance, if the company that sells apples makes each consumer sign a "End-Comsumer Digestion Agreement" in which the hungry fellow must only eat that apple at certain times of the day, and in specified locations. He may not share part of the apple with a friend, or save it for later, or even give it away. If he decides not to eat the apple, then he must return it to the store. Also, the apple company might use underhanded tactics to force other orchards to stop growing bananas, or oranges, or pears, and to grow only apples instead -- thus forcing people to eat more and more apples. They drop the prices of apples to absurdly low prices in order to draw more and more consumers. Eventually, most people eat apples out of sheer habit, without realizing that there's other tasty fruit out there. These apple-eaters are so sure that their apples are superior because they're the majority, and that everyone else should eat apples too. Some supermarkets stop selling oranges and bananas altogether, and so customers with wider tastes are forced to look elsewhere for the fruit of their choice. Consider lunchtime at a computer firm. The coworkers in the cafeteria sit down with their lunches; most of them buy apples from the counter, but one guy -- considered a nerd by the rest -- brings an orange from home. Everyone else laughs at him for preferring oranges instead of apples. The man who prefers oranges might decide to start bringing apples to work instead, simply to fit in. Or he might just consume his oranges in the privacy of his cubicle instead. Then there are the consumers who argue that apples are better for you because they weigh more than oranges. If they weigh more, than that must mean that they have more nutritional content, and make you more satisfied. They might think up some "fact" like "apples are easier to digest." Even though the government starts investigating the apple company because of its questionable marketing strategies, the public ignores these potential illegal actions because "apples are good for you"! And most importantly, whenever those who eat oranges try to let their apple-eating friends know that there are alternatives, those orange-eaters are laughed away because of their "bad taste." There's two sides to every story, folks. :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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