[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science Fiction August 1957. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] "The probability of unfavorable consequences cannot be zero in any action of common life, but the probability increases by a very high power as a series of actions is lengthened. The effect of moral considerations, in conduct, may be stated to be a mathematically verifiable reduction in the number of unfavorable possible chance happenings. Of course, whether this process is termed the intelligent use of probability, or ethics, or piety, make…
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