Suppose
you own an antique dining room table which is worth many tens of
thousands of dollars. Suppose your butler tells you that there are
dozens of cockroaches crawling around on your priceless table and you
will be having dinner guests in one hour.
Your butler informs you that his job
description does not include killing cockroaches and as he is leaving your house
he offers you four options for getting rid of the cockroaches:
1) He offers you a chainsaw to "slash" the little critters to pieces,
2) He offers you a large and powerful flamethrower to "burn" the critters
to pieces,
3) He offers you 2 gallons of a highly, highly toxic liquid chemical to
"poison" the critters, and
4) He offers you an old $1 flyswatter.
Which of the four options would you use to get rid of the
cockroaches? Would you choose one of the first three options (slash, burn and
poison) because they are highly potent at killing cockroaches or would you
choose the cheap, wimpy flyswatter?