On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 12:25, Mark Walker wrote:
> Pascal's wager, you'll recall, goes roughly like this.
> ...
> Thus,  given our uncertainty and what is at
> stake I think we should act as if Friendliness should come first.


Of course, Pascal's Wager is a well-known (but modestly clever)
fallacy.  Your analogous construction doesn't appear to do much better,
and for many of the same reasons.

-James Rogers
 jamesr@best.com