Because there are people who don’t have a shortsighted, reactionary mentality.
The degrees of how bad is entirely contextual. And part of the context of seeing the lesser evil as “better” involves limiting the scope to a false dichotomy.
Being stabbed is better than being shot, but regardless of which option you’re still fucking being injured.
Nice bad faith interpretation. Nothing about what I said implies that I can’t recognize that degrees exist. In fact, I explicitly recognized that degrees exist and the contextual nature of them.
Your inability to have contextual understanding of the wider picture and not limit yourself to the immediate, reactionary perspective is the handicap here.
One step forward for every two steps back is “technically” better than no steps forward and three steps back. Yet, if you understand the full picture, you realize that both are still resulting in backwards progress; so, another choice needs to be made if one’s goal is to go forward.
If all you ever do is react to the “greater evil” by giving power to the “lesser evil”, you simply allow evil to hold it over you as a threat to coerce your obedience and consolidate power while dangling performative concessions to keep the people distracted by the illusion of progress.
In a vacuum, no, not that one single instance, but I am not simply talking about the singular instance but the mentality and logic behind it while also criticizing the logic of that mentality.
I had already made my point about those that miss the “better times” in a previous comment. Then you made a comment about a lack of seeing degrees, and then I continued from that point.
You are upset about people being wishful for better times, it is just your explanation for the upset doesn’t make much sense to me. I think it’s easier to continue this convo in just the other thread, I’ll continue replying just in that
Nice accusations about what I am “upset” at, too bad they are completely wrong. Sorry you cannot grasp the argument. I have explained it to the best I can. If you still cannot understand it then you are beyond my help.
Continue in the other thread if you wish but judging from how this conversation has gone I do believe I’m just gonna check out of it. It is clearly going nowhere.
I agree that I can’t follow your logic or argument, it just seems nonsensical. If there’s a sense, it is beyond me or maybe you just see some sense in it that I don’t. Not sure further explaining will help, so I get it.
There’s always degrees to it. I dunno why so many online forget about this
Because there are people who don’t have a shortsighted, reactionary mentality.
The degrees of how bad is entirely contextual. And part of the context of seeing the lesser evil as “better” involves limiting the scope to a false dichotomy.
Being stabbed is better than being shot, but regardless of which option you’re still fucking being injured.
Not being able to see degrees to things seems more like a handicap than anything good tbh.
Nice bad faith interpretation. Nothing about what I said implies that I can’t recognize that degrees exist. In fact, I explicitly recognized that degrees exist and the contextual nature of them.
Your inability to have contextual understanding of the wider picture and not limit yourself to the immediate, reactionary perspective is the handicap here.
One step forward for every two steps back is “technically” better than no steps forward and three steps back. Yet, if you understand the full picture, you realize that both are still resulting in backwards progress; so, another choice needs to be made if one’s goal is to go forward.
If all you ever do is react to the “greater evil” by giving power to the “lesser evil”, you simply allow evil to hold it over you as a threat to coerce your obedience and consolidate power while dangling performative concessions to keep the people distracted by the illusion of progress.
It doesn’t give much power to anyone to think “this time sucks, I wish we still had the better times”
I just can’t with the shortsightedness.
In a vacuum, no, not that one single instance, but I am not simply talking about the singular instance but the mentality and logic behind it while also criticizing the logic of that mentality.
I had already made my point about those that miss the “better times” in a previous comment. Then you made a comment about a lack of seeing degrees, and then I continued from that point.
Keep up
You are upset about people being wishful for better times, it is just your explanation for the upset doesn’t make much sense to me. I think it’s easier to continue this convo in just the other thread, I’ll continue replying just in that
Nice accusations about what I am “upset” at, too bad they are completely wrong. Sorry you cannot grasp the argument. I have explained it to the best I can. If you still cannot understand it then you are beyond my help.
Continue in the other thread if you wish but judging from how this conversation has gone I do believe I’m just gonna check out of it. It is clearly going nowhere.
I agree that I can’t follow your logic or argument, it just seems nonsensical. If there’s a sense, it is beyond me or maybe you just see some sense in it that I don’t. Not sure further explaining will help, so I get it.