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[eiseachas]

How often, if at all, do you make the wrong choice on purpose?

Answer if you feel so inclined. I'm just trying to find out if I'm the only one that does it.

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[iceflame108]

I don't know if I necessairly make the wrong choice, but certainly the less wise or beneficial choice on purpose. I do this fairly frequently.

[knullare]

Rarely. The right choice is the one you make.

[iceflame108]

wrong. but we'll never agree on that point.

[knullare]

Well, what I said there was an oversimplification.

I don't understand why you would make a choice that doesn't get you what you want, consciously or subconsciously. The choice that gets you what you want is the "right" choice. Why would one define right as something other than what is right for you, what is most pleasurable (not in strictly in the physical sense of the word) to you?

[eiseachas]

But you don't always know. You have to make choices based on assumptions. Let's say there are two movies, one of which has gotten really good reviews and all your friends say is excellent. But at the same time a different movie is showing that hasn't gotten the greatest reviews, but regardless, you think you would enjoy it. So you would assume that the "right" choice would be to go see the first movie. But there's just some allure to the second movie and you won't sleep until you see it. Seven dollars and two and a half hours later you meet up with your friends who are just raving about the movie they saw, meanwhile you are swearing at yourself for being a dumbass.

In that situation I would say you knowingly made a "wrong" choice.