Why am I entering the anthropicism contest?

Because if there were no anthropocism contest, I wouldn't be able to enter it.

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Best of luck, I understand it is very competitive. There is no second place, it's all or nothing.

Best of luck, I understand it is very competitive. There is no second place, it's all or nothing

Unlike the solipsism contest, where everyone wins first prize.

Unlike the solipsism contest, where everyone wins first prize.

Further, if the universe weren't balanced exactly the way it is, it would be almost impossibly unlikely that everyone in the universe would have an aversion to seafood.

Maybe not. (re: solipsism contest.) A woman once wrote Bertrand Russell saying that she wa a solipsist and was surprised there weren't more of them ...