Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

When two's company, three's the result!

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

A picture is worth a thousand words...and uses up a thousand times the memory.