tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post8886437571292831515..comments2023-10-31T03:18:26.963-07:00Comments on Great Guys Weblog: If It Doesn't Kill You, Is It a Bad Decision?Brethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-48086880638763432252015-02-18T08:48:38.987-08:002015-02-18T08:48:38.987-08:00Your Brain Is Primed to Reach False Conclusions.<a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/your-brain-is-primed-to-reach-false-conclusions/" rel="nofollow">Your Brain Is Primed to Reach False Conclusions</a>.Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-51141090491780818212015-02-16T17:09:05.412-08:002015-02-16T17:09:05.412-08:00Bret;
For now. But the Gods of the Copybook Headi...Bret;<br /><br />For now. But the Gods of the Copybook Headings may falsify that claim as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-51037886841007653352015-02-11T08:32:27.112-08:002015-02-11T08:32:27.112-08:00Hey Skipper wrote: "That is tantamount to cla...Hey Skipper wrote: "<i>That is tantamount to claiming that bad decisions don't exist.</i>"<br /><br />Well yeah, thus the title of the post.<br /><br />Hey Skipper wrote: "<i>Have you ever met anyone who was glad to be a drug addict, alcoholic, or smoker?</i>"<br /><br />My dad was happy enough to be an alcoholic (the rest of us were much annoyed, of course), I smoked some when I was young and enjoyed it immensely. I've been addicted to caffeine off and on and have no regrets.<br /><br />So yeah.<br /><br />To me, sort of by definition, if someone ingests a drug, overall, their neurons firing must think it's the best course of action at that point, otherwise they wouldn't do it.<br /><br />Hey Skipper wrote: "<i>Any woman who would prefer to raise alone children by serial, absent, fathers, compared to having a dedicated, present, husband?</i>"<br /><br />Prefer? I would prefer to be king of the world (well, maybe not:-), but my preferences have nothing to do with anything.<br /><br />In reading about the 70% of poor children born out of wedlock (all races!), what's clear to me is that in most cases, the mother and father have absolutely no regret. They're both happy to have a child.<br /><br />So what's bad about their decision from their point of view?<br /><br />Hey Skipper wrote: "<i>Progressives [differ?] from everyone else in a fundamental way that falsifies that statement: the presumption they have enough information and intelligence to run society.</i>"<br /><br />So that's their "Bad Decision" that "Doesn't Kill You." That's the point of this post.Brethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063508651955739056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5806884.post-77037988078989828882015-02-10T20:22:01.147-08:002015-02-10T20:22:01.147-08:00Is anyone making an objectively bad decision? I cl...<i>Is anyone making an objectively bad decision? I claim no. </i><br /><br />That is tantamount to claiming that bad decisions don't exist. If that was true, then there would be no such thing as regret, either. <br /><br />Have you ever met anyone who was glad to be a drug addict, alcoholic, or smoker? Any woman who would prefer to raise alone children by serial, absent, fathers, compared to having a dedicated, present, husband?<br /><br /><i>Personally, I don't think it's a problem of liberalism ... </i><br /><br />Progressives from everyone else in a fundamental way that falsifies that statement: the presumption they have enough information and intelligence to run society.<br /><br />No one does.<br /><br />At least the rest of us have <i>that</i> figured out.Hey Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10798930502187234974noreply@blogger.com