Ask them to give advice to a hypothetical student who worries about being perfect in all aspects of life.
Unlike many hypothetical scenarios that bioethicists worry about - human clones, "designer babies" - cognitive enhancement is already in full swing.
Mr. Zadra also used kidnapping as an example of database use, citing the possibility of a law enforcement official's having to tell the parents of a kidnapped child that "'we did have a tool, but we can't use that tool any more, and I can't find your daughter.' How sad would that be?" Others can worry about hypothetical threats to privacy, he said.
SHE may be hypothetical, but Richard Cañas still worries about her, because he knows there are thousands of real people like her.
In fact, however, there isn't any case for believing that we face any broad bubble problem, let alone that worrying about hypothetical bubbles should take precedence over the task of getting Americans back to work.
For another bidding city, Sacramento, the hypotheticals seem less of a worry.
Before I start worrying about the hypothetical problems in my hypothetical garden, I'd be better off pulling a weed, here and now.
Why are we worrying about a hypothetical 50 years from now when the reality, right now, is that there's child labor and illegal logging happening around the world?
Mr. Vladeck of the F.T.C. offered one possibility he worried about: a hypothetical consumer who buys a deep-fat fryer online may get typecast by data broker systems as a health risk, and then is passed over for marketing pitches for insurance or other services.
If Greece were to default tomorrow — a hypothetical scenario, although I am worried about the current European trajectory — and this had devastating effects on the European and thus the United States financial system, would JPMorgan Chase be allowed to go bankrupt in the same fashion as Lehman Brothers?
