• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    If there really are only harmful options, for sure choose the least harm. But you have to make sure that you’re not ignoring an option which involves no harm.

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      2 days ago

      The problem really is when people assume there’s only two choices. If you dont like the choices, be creative and come up with something else.

      • HubertManne@piefed.social
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        1 day ago

        I mean for most things there are almost unlimited choices. One can go mad in response to something. So just want to add to not assume there are only two effective choices and be creative to look for another possible effective choice. I mean if you find a new choice to avoid a choice that you can see will have the same result of the first choice then making the new choice is effectively the same as the other choice.

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          23 hours ago

          I’d caveat that if you didnt know the new choice would result in the same thing as the first choice, you still gained new knowledge by trying it out. We also can’t know all the answers all the time.

      • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz
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        1 day ago

        If you are in this position, it helps to remember a great suits quote:

        You need a bigger gun

        —Harvey Specter