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Originally Posted by wintermuted
I can see the comfort in trying to reduce everything to a minimum amount of complexity. It certainly makes decisions easier and lets you sleep easier at night. It may even work well as a personal strategy. I'd argue, however, that it creates a tunnel vision situation, oblivious to nuance and unintended consequence.
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Seeking the simplest solution is by no means a sign of intellectual weakness or an attempt to avoid reality, nor is it a matter of tunnel vision so your condescending attitude doesn't lend credibility to your case friend.
Making things more complicated than they need to be is what leads to unintended consequences. One look at the bloated, ineffective pig our government has become is proof of that, it's a product of making things too complicated.
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Originally Posted by wintermuted
I think simple solutions are more often than not best suited to simple problems. The real world can sometimes be a complicated place that calls for looking at multiple versions of the truth and weighing shades of gray. I'd call keeping the blinders on as a matter of public policy dangerously misguided.
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I'm more concerned about the problems caused by people who get lost in shades of grey fog. The real world is not as complicated as you want it to be, it's really fairly simple if you choose to see reality. There's no such thing as multiple truths, a thing is either right or wrong, what you describe is simply a means to deny the truth and justify the agenda of the day.