CopperLine wrote:Acikgoz wrote:The Dog and the Shadow - A little something from Aesop
A Dog, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.
Very good Acikgoz. This is exactly the parable for the GC position on Cyprus settlement.
Not so fast, CopperLine.!
When the dog saw it's own shadow and the shadow of the meat in it's mouth at a vastly larger size, which he went after, surely that is a misrepresentation of what would have happened, since the shadow of the dog would also have been vastly larger. Therefore, the dog would not have let go of his own meat to go after a "larger" one, because the "larger" meat was in the mouth of a much "larger" dog.!