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Filed under Present values preferred to future.

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Man wagers he can run with his head off. Asked what it will profit him, he says that it will profit his family
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Present possessions preferred to future possibilitiesMan to be reforged chooses present unhappiness. He is in heaven and God is to reforge him, but he chooses not to changeChildren choose father they know rather than real father they do not yet know. Woman confesses that child is not by her husband. Child, however, chooses to keep the father he knows. (Cf. J391, J1279.1.)Man prefers servant girl who is present to her absent mistressSoldier prefers to live rather than die and be avenged on enemy

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