Hm ... thinking back, I'm not clear how one might write this one in an OO fashion ...

package Action;

sub new {
 my $class = shift;
 my $self = {};
 bless $class, $self;
 $self;
}

# other methods

sub set_nobility {
 if ($self->{type} eq 'suffer') {
   
  $self->{nobility} = $self->{acted_upon) eq 'slings and arrows of out
+rageous fortune' ? 1 : .5;
} 
 if ($self->{type}  eq 'take arms against') {
   $self->{nobility} = $self->{acted_upon) eq 'a sea of troubles' ? .9
+8 : .2;
 }
}

sub nobility {
 return $self->{nobility};
}
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Putting it to use is left as an exercise for the reader ... erm, author.

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor