Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Between a rock and an equally hard other rock? (1/365)

My head is spinning. Lack of sugar? Perhaps growing impatience with worrying about other people doing the right thing. Is it right, anyway? My way obviously doesn’t work for others. Although perhaps it also doesn’t always and necessarily work for me. Pressure to do the right thing, when the right thing is apparently subjective.

This also means that you may be torn between a number of “the right thing to do” opinions. The ones that feel like equally correct but opposite ideas that exist at the same time. Or if they are not opposite in and of themselves they require different actions that are independently and mutually exclusive of each other.
I wonder if or what the philosophical term for the dilemma may be? I am sure there is one, as this is surely not the first or the last time a person happened to be placed or put themselves into a similar position.

That is why diplomacy is more of an art than a science probably. Although both can be mastered through mere talent or gained skill. Make everyone, including yourself, happy. A possibly possible task. Everyone should be able to just get along, we’re not fighting wars here people, we’re just trying to fulfill that simple human social need of maintaining friendships.

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