Skiing by Helicopter

Suppose you go skiing. You take a lift to the top of a hill, and you are just about

to ski down the hill when a man comes along and asks where you are going. “Iʼm going

to the lodge at the bottom,” you reply. He says, “I can help you with that,” and promptly

grabs you, throws you in a helicopter, flies you to the lodge, and then disappears. So

you look around kind of dazed, take a lift to the top of the hill, and you are just about to

ski down it when that same man grabs you, throws you into a helicopter, and flies you to

the lodge. Youʼd be upset, no? Skiing is not just the goal of getting to the lodge,

because any number of activities can accomplish that for us. Skiing is how we are going

to get there. Yet notice that getting to the lodge is important because it allows us to do

the process of skiing in a direction. If tried to ski uphill instead of down, it wouldnʼt work.