I was in Costco the other day looking at one of their safes when I tried to pick it up. I expected it to be ridiculously heavy but it wasn’t. It was heavy but it wasn’t so heavy that one person would have trouble picking it up and that troubled me because it meant that a thief could, if they truly wanted to, pick up the safe, take it to their car, and steal it along with anything else. After they stole it, they would be able to take their sweet time in opening it and getting to the valuables I kept inside.
The paradox is that I’d want to order a safe that was so heavy that I couldn’t lift it… but I’d have to transport it from where I was buying it to my home. Ha! That’s the paradox!
Ultimately I didn’t buy the safe but it’s an interesting problem, isn’t it?
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