I beg to
differ.
I do think that the above answers are just as right as the one I am
about to offer. But, I see it as though the banker actually was right. The young lawyer grew old
far quicker than he would have if he had had the company of other people.
15
years in solitary confinement drove him to despise the 2 millions he was to be awarded if he
lasted out the terms of the confinement. His time in solitary drove him to despise human
thinking, philosophy and all things "civilized".
The banker was
right in that it was a death by degrees. The young lawyer entered his confinement young and
energetic and left old and bitter at 40 years of age.
While morally, the
young lawyer won the bet as he could have easily stayed another 5 hours, he lost the bet because
he proved the banker right in that it was inhumane to be in solitary confinement for 15
years.
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