Thursday, December 27, 2007

Is More Always Worse?

Is it always true that if you have a good thing, then having more of it is better and, conversely, if you got something bad having more of it is worse? Case in point, consider the following situation, which is usually told as a joke:

"What is worse than finding a worm in the apple you are eating?"
"I don't know... Two worms."
"No. Half a worm!"