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I'm sick of reading these parables from the perspective of an all-knowing outsider with perfect information. All it does is give the reader a smug sense of satisfaction that they could never be so stupid.

For once, I'd like to see it from the perspective of someone with uncertain, incomplete information, gathered by people who have their own agendas about a topic whose towers of abstraction the protagonist barely has a grasp on, on which they have to make decisions with inadequate time for consideration or research and of which, 999 will be utterly uneventful and 1 will blow up completely in their face.



This parable is trying to demonstrate a point; padding it out with "uncertain, incomplete information" wouldn't make that point clearer.




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