Consider the bag of potato...
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Consider the bag of potato chips. It’s marvelous, really. You can toss it in a dusty corner for weeks. You can throw it in a puddle of mud. You can toss it in the trunk of your car with all the other forgotten things you keep there. You can basically do anything you want to this little bag of potato chips before you open it. When you open that bag, the chips will be good. They won’t be dusty, muddy, or smell like the pair of gym socks that you haven’t taken out of your car since last November. Those chips will be good. Nothing that you do on the outside of that bag of chips will damage the food inside. Now, it’s true that chips are not always good. But their imperfections don’t come from anything you do to the outside of a bag. You could keep that bag locked in a sterile safe and never touch it except with rubber gloves. But if the chips inside are bad, they will be bad no matter what they bag looks like on the outside. Good and bad chips have no relation to the state of the plastic bag. It’s what is inside that really counts.
