The Paradox of Mass Action

There's something very paradoxical about it, and it has a number of very strange features. One strange feature incidentally is that although people have occasionally thought they found precursors of this idea in the writings of Hobbes or Hume or Rousseau, if you look at them fairly closely, it turns out not to be the case. So that's an oddity. Why should it be it's something that seems so obvious, allegedly, to people now didn't seem obvious to anyone for 2,000 years? That's kind of curious. I mean, there is something strange about telling people that we are going to make you do something which will bring about something you are very attached to as