A mountaineer is hiking in a mountain range. There is a thick fog so he cannot see beyond a few meters.
It is raining heavily and so the mountain range is being flooded, the mountaineer has to climb to a high place so he won’t get washed away.
He will climb towards the highest point in his sight, and if he sees another higher point he will change his direction towards there.
Now the mountaineer is standing on the top of a hill, and to his knowledge every direction is downwards, and there is no higher peak in sight. He sits on the hilltop, anxiously watching the rain and hearing the water raising.
The water floods the hill and drowns him, washing his dead body into the abyss.
Is he on the highest peak of the mountain range? Unlikely
Can he ever get there if he cannot see beyond a few metres? Very unlikely.
A band of mountaineers are hiking in a mountain range. There is a thick fog so they cannot see beyond a few meters.
It is raining heavily and so the mountain range is being flooded, the mountaineers have to climb to a high place so they won’t get washed away.
They elected the most experienced mountaineer as their leader, in the fog he can see a couple metres further than everybody else, and so he is the best guide possible for anyone.
The band all followed him onto a hilltop, every direction is downwards so they stayed there, anxiously watching the rain and hearing the raising waters.
Until the water floods the hilltop and drowns them, washing their dead bodies into the abyss.
This band is functionally the same as a lone mountaineer.
A band of mountaineers are hiking in a mountain range. There is a thick fog so they cannot see beyond a few meters.
It is raining heavily and so the mountain range is being flooded, the mountaineers have to climb to a high place so they wo