User:Fasten/YHVH/Dictionary/helicopter
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A helicopter is a metaphor for reduced probability / lack of randomness.
There are probably two interpretations:
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- living in an unlikely universe (where some of your options are taken away, only not necessarily the ones you would rule out by ethical choice)
- reducing your options by choice (by considering Kant's Categorical Imperative)
The rotor blades of a helicopter appear in different positions at the same time, but immobile, while actually rotating. This symbolizes a reduced number of options out of the full range of options.
Helicopters are often found around people who are very rich and/or very powerful, both can be reasons why somebody might be a very dedicated taxi driver
At the same time the helicopter is a very wasteful form of transportation and thus translates to sehr verkehrt (very wrong). This most probably refers primarily to people wielding too much power or owning too much.
This does, of course, not belittle the use of the helicopter where it actually makes sense, e.g. as an emergency vehicle.
[edit] Meta Metaphor
Reduced probability / lack of randomness is probably a meta metaphor for reducing your options, for not doing what cannot be done. (Categorical Imperative)
