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Everything produces a chain of events that stretch indefinitely, if not infinitely, into the future.
If care is indeed a limited resource, then it cannot stretch indefinitely to cover the massive domain of strangers and nonhuman animals.
For example, Spinoza held, not only that the realms of thought and extension must stretch indefinitely beyond our finite grasp, but that, as well as in the two known realms of thought and extension, the one substance must exist also in an infinity of other dimensions completely beyond our power to conceive.
While this assumption is quite reasonable for prediction attempts that stretch indefinitely into the future, in many real situations it would be too conservative resulting in unjustifiably wide confidence intervals.
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Noyer, governor of France's central bank, said Greece's ECB lifeline could not be stretched indefinitely.
A rubber band can't be stretched indefinitely, because although it seems smooth and continuous, that's merely a convenient approximation: it's really made of atoms, and if you stretch it too much, it snaps.
But we would prefer a life stretching indefinitely into the future.
Some of us might welcome the prospect of having lived a life stretching indefinitely into the past, given fortuitous circumstances.
These days, it's so pliable that when you push hard on it with your finger, it just stretches indefinitely.
Since we appear to be living in a forever-accelerating universe, with spacetime stretching indefinitely at an ever-increasing rate, the entropy will continue to rise, leading eventually to a cold death (see my blog "The Fate of the Universe").
But it was built on two illusions: that the conservative era would stretch on indefinitely, and that politics matters more than governing.
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