ignoring my postulation about the nonexistence of 100% in this world, what would you do, if given 70 percent of your effort, you could accomplish your personal goals, but putting in that extra 30 percent effort would jeopardise others' without changing your own outcome?
it is the same debate about efficiency and equality, isn't it?
how do we strike a balance between others and ourselves? they tried to avoid the debate by coming up with the term equity. giving everyone an equal chance. clever play, but they haven answered: where exactly do you draw the line.
i think you hold back if you are going to hurt others. of course not everyone is aware that they are hurting people. you cant really blame them, but if you know, you better don't. it's a crime.
would you want to teach the people around you to be thinking players? the good thing is that they won't kill you out of foolishness unintentionally or otherwise. the bad thing is that your edge over them would be eroded. it is something which i am still tryin to reconcile.
today was quite screwed up. wj, hq and i went hc to play soccer, but it rained, and we ended up sitting at the canteen talking. sort of reminds you of school, reminds you of help camp. then we went to modesto to eat and watch liverpool v man utd. den home after that.
so i neither played nor drunk, which were two things i set out to do today. at least my mp3 wasnt spoilt, as i initially feared. it was just the earphones which were spoilt. what a relief.
at least i got kobukuro's koko ni shika saka nai hana. this and their sakura are very nice songs. the kind that tug at your heart.
trying to get glamorous sky accoustic version is very very very hard. i still haven gotten it. even went to download the single, in the vain hope that it would be included. it wasnt, incidentally.
would you put others or yourself first? is there any meaning in putting more effort at otehrs' expense? would you spoil the market? actually i think it is perfectly ok to go all out to spoil the market...but doing things that condemn others to defeat, without the need to actually do so...is quite a shame, really. and the best part is, sometimes we think we are helping, but we are making it worse. the problem of unintended consequences as highlighted by merton. ignorance, error, basic values, self-defeating prediction and the intentional ignorance of the effects to achieve the intended effects were singled out as the causes of unintended consequences. how true.
it is the same debate about efficiency and equality, isn't it?
how do we strike a balance between others and ourselves? they tried to avoid the debate by coming up with the term equity. giving everyone an equal chance. clever play, but they haven answered: where exactly do you draw the line.
i think you hold back if you are going to hurt others. of course not everyone is aware that they are hurting people. you cant really blame them, but if you know, you better don't. it's a crime.
would you want to teach the people around you to be thinking players? the good thing is that they won't kill you out of foolishness unintentionally or otherwise. the bad thing is that your edge over them would be eroded. it is something which i am still tryin to reconcile.
today was quite screwed up. wj, hq and i went hc to play soccer, but it rained, and we ended up sitting at the canteen talking. sort of reminds you of school, reminds you of help camp. then we went to modesto to eat and watch liverpool v man utd. den home after that.
so i neither played nor drunk, which were two things i set out to do today. at least my mp3 wasnt spoilt, as i initially feared. it was just the earphones which were spoilt. what a relief.
at least i got kobukuro's koko ni shika saka nai hana. this and their sakura are very nice songs. the kind that tug at your heart.
trying to get glamorous sky accoustic version is very very very hard. i still haven gotten it. even went to download the single, in the vain hope that it would be included. it wasnt, incidentally.
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