[UA] Risking it - Sunbjectivity or objectivity?

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

Now THAT was well said -and, if I may say so, concise.

--- James O'Rance <jorance at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Machiavelli132 at aol.com said:
> 
>  >>>I always thought there *had* to be a risk
> involved, no matter what the 
> adept thinks.<<<
> 
> But is the risk subjective (based on what the
> entropomancer can possibly 
> know about the situation) or objective?
> 
> If the risk must be objective, then you could take
> the argument to its 
> extreme and argue that entropomancy is impossible
> without entering 
> situations that involve the Uncertainty principle.
> Even when you're playing 
> Russian Roulette, either the gun will fire a bullet
> or it will not. The 
> universe "knows" which will happen, and so there is
> no risk - there is 
> certainty.
> 
> If the risk is subjective, then there's little
> difference between playing 
> Russian Roulette (some of the chambers are loaded,
> some aren't) and pulling 
> the trigger on an unknown gun (all of the chambers
> are loaded or none of 
> them are).
> 
>  >>>Crossing an empty freeway blindfolded gets you
> no charges, as there is 
> no real risk.<<<
> 
> There is a risk if you are being subjective. The
> entropomancer has no way of 
> knowing if a car will approach before he crosses the
> freeway. It may be a 
> very minor risk (if the freeway has little traffic
> at that time of day) but 
> it is a risk nonetheless.
> 
>  >>>Crossing it blindfolded during rush-hour gives
> you a charge, as
> there is a real risk of the bodybag being
> splattered.<<<
> 
> There is a *greater* risk. If you consider the
> universe to "know" all of the 
> variables and be able to calculate the situation
> exactly, though, there is 
> no objective risk - either the entropomancer gets
> splattered, or he doesn't.
> 
> This is one reason why I believe that UA magic
> *must* be subjective (there 
> are many reasons).
> 
> 
> James O’Rance
> “Divine being creates petting zoo. It gets out of
> hand.”
> - The Bible (summarised by John W. Mangrum)
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/dragon-dreamer/
> 
> 
> 
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