Time spent making love to one person is usually not time spent making love to another person

The keyword being usually... heh.

I'm actually writing this while having sex. Not really though. But now I'm curious. I'm sure everybody's talked on the phone... at least once... during sex.... right? And maybe a few people have had sex... more or less... while driving? I wonder what some of the odder multitasks have been?

Anyways, that's a very poetic image you painted of the robot programmed to eat oranges until the end of time. That robot was some programmer's marionette. Invisible strings controlled the robot's every move.

You're absolutely right that it's all about choice...

These extraordinarily complex micro-relationships are what we are really referring to when we speak of “the economy.” It is definitely not a single, simple process for producing a uniform, aggregate glop. Moreover, when we speak of “economic action,” we are referring to the choices that millions of diverse participants make in selecting one course of action and setting aside a possible alternative. Without choice, constrained by scarcity, no true economic action takes place. Thus, vulgar Keynesianism, which purports to be an economic model or at least a coherent framework of economic analysis, actually excludes the very possibility of genuine economic action, substituting for it a simple, mechanical conception, the intellectual equivalent of a baby toy. - Robert Higgs, Recession and Recovery