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yerself · 02-11-2010, 16:10

If you went into a certain Oswaldtwistle bakery and saw a selection of pies on display and enquired of the pieman, "How much are those pies?", would you expect him to reply "I don't think it's fair you know in advance. I think it's unfair to decide whether to purchase my pie purely on how expensive it is. Take a pie home, eat it and when you come back I'll tell you the cost and you can tell me if you think it was worth it."
Think how demoralised the baker would be if you decided not buy his wares purely on a cost basis if you knew the price in advance.

02-11-2010, 16:10	#462
yerself God Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land Posts: 3,212 Liked: 328 times Rep Power: 12996	Re: The value of public funded art If you went into a certain Oswaldtwistle bakery and saw a selection of pies on display and enquired of the pieman, "How much are those pies?", would you expect him to reply "I don't think it's fair you know in advance. I think it's unfair to decide whether to purchase my pie purely on how expensive it is. Take a pie home, eat it and when you come back I'll tell you the cost and you can tell me if you think it was worth it." Think how demoralised the baker would be if you decided not buy his wares purely on a cost basis if you knew the price in advance. __________________ Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.