Posted by Don -don
on June 24, 2002, 7:19 pm
With all trickery out of mind, then, it was not a chicken because it had not yet hatched and grown. If you meant "are you killing a chicken" (as in a chicken that had not yet come to be, but one that would) I would say that you had done so. Poor chicken - you might have made great Bar-B-Que.
--Previous Message--
: Let's just say there is no way to be certain if
: the egg is or is not fertilized.
: Though there are methods to determine, such
: as candling, the relative reliability of
: that is dependent on development passing a
: given point.
: The riddle is difficult in the sense that the
: state of the egg is not a well defined
: condition.
: It is simply an egg from outward appearance
: and the solution will have to take into
: account what may or may not be the case
: inside the egg.
: And it has been said, 'well, if it's a snake
: egg then you wouldn't be killing a
: chicken'.
: But it is not meant to be a trick question,
: you can at least assume the egg is a
: typical chicken egg, and the chicken that
: layed it was a typical chicken.
:
: --Previous Message--
: The first qualification is: was the egg
: fertilized?
: --Previous Message--
: This has been posted many times on many
: boards
: and still no prize winner.
: It's a simple riddle, the chicken and the
: egg.
: The solution to it will solve the abortion
: dilemma and the winner will be crowned
: Master of the Universe.
: The question is: When you crack an egg are
: you killing a
: chicken?
: : :
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