Hypothetical situations -- What's the real life application?
I invent many hypothetical situations over the course of any given day. Not only does this fulfill my urge to day dream (never during class!), but it also provides interesting 'what if's' that may, or may not, occur. The point is not the situation that is created, the abstract notion of sitting in a lifeboat in the middle of an ocean with a dog that one may or may not own... but the realizing and understanding of the immediate knee-jerk reactions that one has to the situation, as well as consciously pondering the many ways one could potentially react.
That's the real life application, methinks.
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I think you're right: the ultimate value of hypothetical scenarios rests in counterposing intuitions and considered views. Those poor dogs! (But it is in fact a nod to their considerable status among humans that we choose to populate our ill-equipped lifeboats with them rather than, say, rats.)
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