 Every attempt to solve the drowning problem (including conditional entailment and the maximum-entropy approach) comes at the cost of sacrificing cumulativity. Securing strong independence makes the systems very sensitive to the exact form in which the default information is stored. Consider, for example the following case: Swedes are (normally) fair, Swedes are (normally) tall, Jon is a short Swede. Conditional entailment and maximum-entropy entailment would permit the conclusion that Jon is fair in this case. However, if we replace the first two default conditionals by the single default, Swedes are normally both tall and fair, then the conclusion no longer follows, despite the fact that the new conditional is logically equivalent to the conjunction of the two original conditionals.