Religions are not quite religions: some are philosophies, others are just legal systems. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Consider that the turkey's experience may have, rather than no value, a negative value. It learned from observation, as we are all advised to do (hey, after all, this is what is believed to be the scientific method). Its confidence increased as the number of friendly feedings grew, and it felt increasingly safe even though the slaughter was more and more imminent. Consider that the feeling of safety reached its maximum when the risk was at the highest!

Never read a book if you don't expect to be surprised by something in it, while reading it.

True equality is equality in probability.