lesser evil
between
not knowing what you want
and
knowing what you don't want
which is better?
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not knowing what you want
and
knowing what you don't want
which is better?
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
not knowing what you want
and
knowing what you don't want
which is better?
14 Comments:
None. Both help you to find out what you want, don't they? Process of elimination if you "know" both.
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tstar, at 8/08/2006 02:05:00 PM
come to think of it, this comparison is not valid.
Maybe I should rephrase it as is knowing what you don't want as good as not knowing what you want?
Not knowing what you want doesn't help you find out what you want. The second choice does eliminate what you don't want, just like MCQ questions huh? (anyway my MCQ always score worse than those need to write ones)
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chillycraps, at 8/08/2006 06:09:00 PM
I think you meant "knowing what you don't want" in your second paragraph.
Yes, it does eliminate and however small the help is, it's a form of help. It's like 25% chance of getting it right in MCQ versus 50% chance.
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tstar, at 8/08/2006 06:35:00 PM
where did u get the stats??
getting confusing....
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chillycraps, at 8/08/2006 06:52:00 PM
huh.. first one just divide by 4 (one correct ans in 4 choices) versus one correct ans in 2 choices thru elimination... Did I get it wrong somewhere or if ur brain... mushy?
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tstar, at 8/08/2006 07:13:00 PM
nvm........ very confused.
me and my stupid entry.
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chillycraps, at 8/08/2006 08:18:00 PM
i think knowing what you don't want is better. after eliminating everything you don't want, you can just take everything else. but you will never have anything when you don't know what you want.
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xxoos, at 8/09/2006 01:11:00 AM
wah lau, damn cheem.
Better is the one, knowing which you will store less info in your brain :)
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Anonymous, at 8/09/2006 08:51:00 AM
xxoos: that's what I think too~
meder: so you only pop up when I post cheem entries huh? store less info... erm how about portable HDD?
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chillycraps, at 8/09/2006 09:18:00 AM
what about portable HDDs? :)
store less entries more efficient what, can store othe things (memories, images of pretty girls, etc) :)
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Anonymous, at 8/10/2006 02:29:00 PM
then you will have fragmentation.
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chillycraps, at 8/10/2006 04:16:00 PM
hey, i just attended farrell's lecture (for war and society) and he used these two phrases in a context, you decide for yourself which is the lesser evil.
it was what roosevelt, churchill and stalin knowing that they don't want that led them to cooperate to put in all their efforts to prevent the nazi world order from materialising. but after the war, it was because truman did not know what he wanted that led to the usa's mistrust in the soviets and poking its nose in global affairs (note: in pre wwii years, america has always had an isolationist policy).
so which do you think is the lesser evil? 6 (from 1939 the invasion of poland to 1945) years of the second world war or 45 years of cold war (including all the protracted wars).
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xxoos, at 8/16/2006 11:33:00 PM
hey joan, nice quotation. (and I thought you said shouldn't take Farrell's mod?)
hmm, it's really hard to say which is lesser evil in this case, but you sound like you sided the first choice.
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chillycraps, at 8/17/2006 07:00:00 AM
erm... i think i said first year students shouldn't look to farrell for breadths. i make it a point to do a farrell mod every sem.
i'm not really siding one side in my words, but maybe in a way i think that physical fighting is better than the cold war in a war which at least in physical fighting there's the knowledge of what happened and what will happen and the outcome of the war is real, either you win or you lose. the cold war is but one big pool of blur, and people living during the years of the cold war had always thought that things will remain like that for eternity.
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xxoos, at 8/18/2006 09:27:00 AM
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