We need the rain

 

 

That’s what the weatherman says.

 

But does that make any sense?  It’s going to rain or it’s not going to rain.  What we need or want doesn’t have anything to do with it.  It’s going to rain at any particular place when it’s normal for it to rain there.  That’s just the weather in that particular place.  And normally, some years will be rainier or drier than others.  Would we move to the desert, then say we need more rain?  We could move to a rain forest and claim we need less rain.  So when we’re in one place and say we need more rain, aren’t we just saying we would rather that one place be more like some other place?