Would you really want to know?

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Two questions for you...

1. If you could have the correct answer for any question of your choosing, what
would be your question?

2. Are you really sure you would want to know the truth, meaning the correct
answer, to your question?

Please assume the answer to your question really is the absolute truth.


Ken
  • Profile picture of the author BrittyBritt
    The second question is the most interesting to me because it touches on the "ignorance is bliss" mentality.

    Would you really want the answer to your question, if its not the answer that you wanted?

    For instance, what if your question was ''Will I ever be rich?" and the answer would be yes........but you were going to die the next day.

    Okay, sorry, I used an Alanis Morissette example, but I think you get what I'm trying to say lol.

    So...my question would be: What happens when we die?
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Pettit
    BrittyBritt, you are forgiven (because you admitted it yourself, upfront) for using an Alanis M. example! :-)
    Your point is spot on. The question (#1) we would ask would be limited by our own limitations, our inability to see through to the real effects and results of getting the answer we want or don't want. (The Law of Unintended Consequences, the bane of politics, seems to be a lesson few ever learn.)
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    • Profile picture of the author KenThompson
      Originally Posted by sparkie2260 View Post

      Your point is spot on. The question (#1) we would ask would be limited by our own limitations,
      Isn't everything we do limited by our own limitations?

      That is not the point.


      our inability to see through to the real effects and results of getting the answer we want or don't want.
      An impossibility unless one is omniscient.

      Is the only approach one that is based on "wants"? Is it the best approach?

      (The Law of Unintended Consequences, the bane of politics, seems to be a lesson few ever learn.)
      It's not the political process that is so bad, it's the people influencing the process.

      Perhaps someone can expand, maybe you Sparkie, on the law of unintended consequences. What's the lesson, if any, to be learned from it?

      And why didn't you share your answers with us, Sparkie?


      Ken
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