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   Salvador Mirzo to nospam@example.net   
   Re: OT: personal stories   
   07 Mar 25 20:49:19   
   
   From: smirzo@example.com   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Many good hearted leftists are leftists because they cannot see or   
   >>> do not think   
   >>> about second order, or third order, or N order effects. They get stuck at   
   the   
   >>> immediate problem and do not think of how the consequences of their   
   >>> immediate,   
   >>> knee jerk, solution will cause more pain down the line. This is sad. =(   
   >>   
   >> Quite right.  And there is the folly of rewarding A while hoping for B.   
   >>   
   >>  Kerr, Steven. ``On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B.''   
   >>  Academy of Management journal 18.4 (1975): 769-783.   
   >   
   > True!   
   >   
   >>> Then of course you have evil leftists who are fully aware of this, and   
   >>> are leftists due to political power gains.   
   >>   
   >> And there's the post-modernist movement, with their sheer nonsense and   
   >> confusion, that finds good reception in such groups---probably more so   
   >> than in others.   
   >   
   > It will destroy itself in time. Since they have abandoned objective   
   > truth, and built their ethos on being the most vulnerable group, they   
   > will go down in flames and in fighting, since nothing can be resolved   
   > without any kind of objective truth to ground discussions. Sadly it   
   > takes time.   
      
   It takes time.  Intelligence *always* prevails, directly or indirectly.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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