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So what's your threshold for when to call someone pessimistic when they're doing the very useful work of identifying flaws in something? Never? That's not goi
by fartcannon 5y ago
So what's your threshold for when to call someone pessimistic when they're doing the very useful work of identifying flaws in something?
Never?
That's not going to work.
- jonas21 5y agoThere's a difference between identifying things that you will need to overcome, mitigate, or work around in order to be successful (which is useful) and insisting that the existence of these things means the task is impossible or not worth trying (which is not useful).
- fartcannon 5y agoSure, but if you google the definition of the word we're all talking about, there's no mention of impossible. Just someone that, "see[s] the worst aspect of things or believe[s] that the worst will happen". So basically, it's the person you might want around when you're building a bridge, or a jet, or a shuttle.