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"real" is an interesting notion. when you're presented with two thoroughly awful options, and when the ability to select between the two said options is contin
by hnbroseph 8y ago
"real" is an interesting notion. when you're presented with two thoroughly awful options, and when the ability to select between the two said options is contingent on dodgy information, murky details and unanswered questions, is it really a proper choice? i almost feel like it's making important life decisions while one beer away from a blackout.
- siffland 8y agoWasn't some of the "dodgy" information allegedly supplied by Russian backed accounts on Facebook and other platforms. Maybe instead of making the decisions one beer away from a blackout we should do what the Persians did. “If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.” ― Herodotus
- tivert 8y ago> when you're presented with two thoroughly awful options, and when the ability to select between the two said options is contingent on dodgy information, murky details and unanswered questions, is it really a proper choice? It's a more "proper choice" than pretty much all of the alternatives. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.