Black, White, and Gray

[omgweee]

A uhm... friend of mine told me that you will always choose one thing over the other with everything. No matter what it is. You're going to want something more than that other thing that you want or that you already have. I can say that this might be true with material things, but with people? Do you believe that you are going to love one person

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[nleseul]

Love is a vector, not a scalar. You can't generally say that one love is "more" than another, because they exist in many orthogonal dimensions. It's like asking whether 5 is more or less than 5i.

And whatever a parent put in that ridiculous hypothetical situation would actually do, it would have more to do with panic and fear than with any kind of rational calculation of which child they love "more."

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[biogenx2b]

If you want to look at it instinctively, the parent would save the child most likely to succeed given that there was absolutely no other choice at all. Of course, I agree that extremes are very unlikely, and being put in any situation has its gray areas. No matter what you're faced with, there's always a variant of some kind, large or small, that has the potential to change everything. Whether it does or doesn't isn't relevant

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[omgweee]

why post this twice?

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[biogenx2b]

It looks better here. I can actually format the text and whatnot.

Meh?

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[biogenx2b]

*For posterity

There we go.