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Originally Posted by moonshot
I was giving a reasonable reply to a daft suggestion, shop blindfold etc. 
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OK, ignore the blindfold. Do you agree with the rest of Bilbo's thought experiment? It works just as well without the blindfold:
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Go to a bookshop near you. Stand in it and watch the people buying books. Count how many walk in and pick a book at random from the shelves.
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Surely you agree that the majority, if not all, the shoppers do not exhibit this behaviour?
Graham