I myself fail at this test, going into all the pitfalls even if I don't want to. I've wondered why it is that I who consider myself a skeptic still am superstitious. Am I afraid of the possibility that I could kill a loved one with a note or is it simply the negative association, thinking of a loved one dying, which controls the way I think about things?
At least I think it demonstrates how difficult it is to be a rational being, free from superstition, and how we are not rational by nature.
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