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>> I try to avoid doing dumb, damaging, or boring things twice. As a parent I tell my kids: "Make lots of mistakes. Learn from them and don't repeat them; avoi
by skeeter2020 3y ago
>> I try to avoid doing dumb, damaging, or boring things twice.
As a parent I tell my kids: "Make lots of mistakes. Learn from them and don't repeat them; avoid the fatal ones". Then I try to remember my own words before I chastize them for their multitude of dumb decisions (teenage boys)...
- riskable 3y agoTo be fair, you have avoided the fatal ones. So at the very least you're not a hypocrite.
- Eisenstein 3y agoIf someone is a current smoker and they eventually die of lung cancer, would you say that they avoided the fatal decision up until they died? I mean, in the long we are all dead, but we have to say that there can be ultimately fatal decisions made in which the person does not immediately die.
- shswkna 3y agoWe start aging, i.e. heading for death, the moment we are born. And with every breath henceforth. Some faster, some slower. So it is relative, in every sense.
- consf 3y ago[dead]