It's a great post. You probably also found it via Tyler Cowen's MR post. The whole piece is good, but my favourite part was his other excerpt: > “‘Like my cat,

It's a great post. You probably also found it via Tyler Cowen's MR post. The whole piece is good, but my favourite part was his other excerpt: > “‘Like my cat, I often simply do what I want to do.’ This was the opening sentence of Derek Parfit’s philosophical masterpiece, Reasons and Persons… However, there was a problem. Derek did not, in fact, own a cat. Nor did he wish to become a cat owner, as he would rather spend his time taking photographs and doing philosophy. On the other hand, the sentence would clearly be better if it was true. To resolve this problem Derek drew up a legal agreement with his sister, who did own a cat, to the effect that he would take legal possession of the cat while she would continue living with it.”