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When this little girl went missing it was the outcome that drove everyone.  It was the fear of a senseless murder an often to predictable outcome.  We ask ourselves the same questions again, how could this happen, why did this happen, who did it, what about the parents.  So what about us? What about society at large, what are we doing about it?  Nothing! In time this crime will unfold and we will all be deeply saddened by it, but what will we do?   

 So now where folks?  

Obama has been in office for awhile now and things are not a whole bunch different. That’s not to say that he has and is trying to ‘fix the world’. But seriously, is it really his problem to fix? I don’t think so, it’s every one of us. We are the ones who have lowered the bar and allowed, accepted, participated in the dumming down of modern society. Our endless greed, selfishness and sense of entitlement has created an unbalanced distortion in the fabric of life. This distortion is seen throughout society regardless of your age, status, color or even where on the planet you live. We all bought in to it and road along. 

 Occam’s razor

 Occam’s Razor, also Ockham’s Razor,^[1] is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony", "law of economy", or "law of succinctness"): entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity." An alternative version Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate translates "plurality should not be posited without necessity." ^[2]

When multiple competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam’s razor is usually understood.

Originally a tenet of the reductionist philosophy of nominalism, it is more often taken today as an heuristic maxim (rule of thumb) that advises economy, parsimony, or simplicity, often or especially in scientific theories. Here the same caveat applies to confounding topicality with mere simplicity. (A superficially simple phenomenon may have a complex mechanism behind it. A simple explanation would be simplistic if it failed to capture all the essential and relevant parts.) <<Read More>>

Finally I found what I’ve always been looking for, ahhh yes Hobson’s Choice.

Wikipedia