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> The winner already knows they won. Problem is, the loser also knows that they won. There are people within politics who are not so deluded to believe they ha
by adam-a 11y ago
> The winner already knows they won. Problem is, the loser also knows that they won.
There are people within politics who are not so deluded to believe they have already won every contest they enter. Your comment has a real lack of charity for your fellow man.
- jerf 11y agoThere's charity, and then there's just plain being naive. You, ironically, can only say this precisely because you very likely live in a civilization that has had strong voting traditions for hundreds of years, which gives people a lot of training in losing properly. That's a long-term effect of successful voting, a bizarre local aberration in history that's disturbingly fragile, not a universal human truth. One would have to be naive to the point of willful blindness not to see the Will to Power writ large in human history.
- adam-a 11y agoSo according to you I am naive, over privileged, unaware of the "universal human truths" and wilfully blind. This is what I mean about charity. If you can't make a point without accusations and hostility then I believe you need to look at your beliefs and whether they stem from rationality or a desire to put people down.