unduki wrote:
It's a mystical way of saying you can't have it both ways. Once you choose, it's over. If you eat your cake, it's gone; you can't have it anymore.
so it's punitive? you've eaten your cake and so you lose: the cake is gone.
Of course it's gone! it's there for eating.
I can't really understand. No matter how much anyone explains this one, I can't really figure out its purpose. I have an inkling it's supposed to teach people a lesson of some sort, but it's lost on me.
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