I agree. I think a good dose of humility is important. Induction doesn't always work. Simply because it happens over and over again doesn't mean it will happen

I agree. I think a good dose of humility is important. Induction doesn't always work. Simply because it happens over and over again doesn't mean it will happen this time. The turkey loves the farmer and thinks he would never harm him -- until Thanksgiving Day. Then inductive reasoning fails for the turkey :) Having said that, for those of us in developed countries, it's worthy of note just how far away we've come from struggling to provide our basic needs. If you took a poor person today and described their life to somebody from 500 years ago, it would sound like they were kings. To the guy 500 years ago, our modern-day life would be a place where nobody would have to work. Yet we still work. I guess humans are like that.