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For example, 14th century Christians would probably find it a little dramatic that you crossed your fingers to ensure your favorite sports team won.
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"Many of us were at the point where you took what you could get, and you crossed your fingers," said Lori Bacigalupo, whose house in Island Park was left uninhabitable after the hurricane.
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This superstition is so pervasive that, even if you haven't intentionally physically crossed your fingers, you may have used the expression in conversation (probably when talking about something good you want to happen in the future).
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But unvirtuous individuals will soon learn to cooperate with each other simply from a self-interested expectation of the benefits of future cooperation, and special language is introduced to express one's resolution to perform one's part (on penalty of social distrust)—thus the practice is distinguished from the favors of true friends, and secured through staking one's reputation on faithful performance. The convention is then made moral in the same way as before ("[p]ublic interest, education, and the artifices of politicians") and a fictional act of the mind ("willing an obligation") is fabricated to make sense of the moral obligation. Finally, Hume reinforces this explanation by observing that a promise obligates you even if you mentally crossed your fingers, but does not obligate you if it was honestly unintended or if you were obviously joking, and yet does obligate you if your devious insincerity is apparent to shrewd observers, and yet does not obligate you if induced by force (alone among all motives): "[a]ll these contradictions", Hume says, are best explained by his convention-based account of promising. He adds that the "terrible" Catholic doctrine of intention (viz.
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