Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoA fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking.message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down113
arrow-up186arrow-down1message-squareA fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking.Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareramble81@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 days agoYou just proved what I was saying though. The thought doesn’t have to be binary. You have a multitude of choices. But the moment you make an action, that is binary. You either do that specific action or not.
minus-squarehornface@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 days agoYou sound like someone I know who insists that the probability of anything happening is always 50/50, because “either it happens or it doesn’t”.
You just proved what I was saying though. The thought doesn’t have to be binary. You have a multitude of choices. But the moment you make an action, that is binary. You either do that specific action or not.
You sound like someone I know who insists that the probability of anything happening is always 50/50, because “either it happens or it doesn’t”.