Samuel
Samuel asked Scott Sigler:

What is more important in a sandwich: the bread, or the meat?

Scott Sigler I think saying "the meat" is important is disenfranchising the value of other sandwich innards. What about a cheese sandwich? What about peanut butter and jelly? Does the fish in a fish sandwich count as "meat?"

What I think you're asking is, "What is more important to the sandwich, the bread or the sammich innards?"

Plato considered this same question shortly before his death in 347 BC. He was a big fan of lamb and tomato sandwiches. To his way of thinking: "A sandwich without innards is simply two slices of bread, and why would you eat two slices at once? Are you a glutton, or is there some imbalance in your soul?"

I side with Plato: one cannot individually consider the relative value of sandwich parts, because those parts alone are no longer parts of a sandwich.

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