True, but the very act of asking folks to choose implies that they make their choice relative to the other possibilites. It may not be the best ever, but it's "best of the options presented."
But it's also just a grammatical rule. To choose between two cutlasses is to choose the "better" cutlass, and to choose between three or more is to choose the "best." It's just a loose denotation of quantity. i was thinking of writing "that's just the lay of the land," but since i've started on a pirate motif i guess i'll say it's the lay of the sea. Yeah.
Erm... y'arr.
