Comments on: How we solve, and don’t solve, problems. https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:37:05 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22210 Jody Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:48:58 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22210 Forgive me...I have no spit to explain further. But I suspect you already know what I mean. ;) Forgive me…I have no spit to explain further. But I suspect you already know what I mean. ;)

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22207 Jody Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:49:48 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22207 Yeah...I thought of that after I wrote it. Yeah…I thought of that after I wrote it.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22196 TB Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:22:01 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22196 A lot depends on differing definitions of "compromise." A lot depends on differing definitions of “compromise.”

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22191 bowser Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:50:35 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22191 How problems are solved. The US decides to solve Problem A. It is going to solve A. After that, all solutions are measured against how they affect A, and if they promote solving A then they are implemented. OR The US decides not to solve Problem B. It decides Problem B is too big to solve, so it's not going to try. However, politically it has to be seen to be doing something, so it will implement a measure to mitigate problem B. It does so, which allows Problem B to continue but the new measure gives an, incorrect, appearance of an attempt to correct the problem. The difference is that in the first case the US has decided to solve a problem and in the second the US has decided to not solve it. How problems are solved.
The US decides to solve Problem A. It is going to solve A. After that, all solutions are measured against how they affect A, and if they promote solving A then they are implemented.
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The US decides not to solve Problem B. It decides Problem B is too big to solve, so it’s not going to try. However, politically it has to be seen to be doing something, so it will implement a measure to mitigate problem B. It does so, which allows Problem B to continue but the new measure gives an, incorrect, appearance of an attempt to correct the problem.

The difference is that in the first case the US has decided to solve a problem and in the second the US has decided to not solve it.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22185 TB Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:34:52 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22185 An awful lot of political opinions in there. Just saying. An awful lot of political opinions in there. Just saying.

]]> By: bowser https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22180 bowser Sat, 22 Dec 2012 18:55:56 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22180 Not the problem which is being solved. Or the mechanism we don't use to solve problems. Topical examples were used, and I may have failed in my mission, but the issue was supposed to be be resolve or the lack of it, not the matters used as examples. Not the problem which is being solved.

Or the mechanism we don’t use to solve problems.

Topical examples were used, and I may have failed in my mission, but the issue was supposed to be be resolve or the lack of it, not the matters used as examples.

]]> By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22177 TB Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:54:32 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22177 Why is this on "Community?" Why is this on “Community?”

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22174 Jody Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:09:56 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22174 I apparently am growing weary of issues where a compromise can not be attained. I am perceiving it as an attempt in futility. I have compromised until I am a permanent color of blue, and the only thing I see having been accomplished is I am becoming more subdued about expressing my opinion. On anything. I apparently am growing weary of issues where a compromise can not be attained. I am perceiving it as an attempt in futility.

I have compromised until I am a permanent color of blue, and the only thing I see having been accomplished is I am becoming more subdued about expressing my opinion. On anything.

]]> By: Jody https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22172 Jody Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:39:25 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22172 My action to problems at this point in my life is much more personal than yours apparently will ever be. My action to problems at this point in my life is much more personal than yours apparently will ever be.

]]> By: MaryAnne https://habitablezone.com/2012/12/22/how-we-solve-and-dont-solve-problems/#comment-22160 MaryAnne Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:35:18 +0000 http://www.habitablezone.com/?p=28846#comment-22160 You didn't like the way this argument was going a while ago, and instead of arguing you attempted to use my grief to discredit my mental state and brush off my counter to your extreme claim about the character of the human race. "I'm right and you're wrong" isn't a particularly compelling argument, except to the people who agree with you, but it's an honest statement of feeling, and as such is honorable. "Poor thing, she's not in her right mind" is low, unfair, and in my case, incorrect. I was, and am, in as much of my right mind as I ever am. Which, considering that I'm posting to you, is apparently not much anyway. But I have learned that you can't expect a man to know what he did unless you tell him. Also, it's my duty to point out that you're going off the deep end again with this drug use comparison. There are a lot of recreational drugs out there, including the Ambien in Joey's mom's medicine cabinet and the bourbon on my bar. The bourbon would tend to exacerbate domestic violence in someone else's house, which is, I'd say, if not terrorism, a source of terror. Care to narrow it down? You didn’t like the way this argument was going a while ago, and instead of arguing you attempted to use my grief to discredit my mental state and brush off my counter to your extreme claim about the character of the human race.

“I’m right and you’re wrong” isn’t a particularly compelling argument, except to the people who agree with you, but it’s an honest statement of feeling, and as such is honorable. “Poor thing, she’s not in her right mind” is low, unfair, and in my case, incorrect. I was, and am, in as much of my right mind as I ever am. Which, considering that I’m posting to you, is apparently not much anyway. But I have learned that you can’t expect a man to know what he did unless you tell him.

Also, it’s my duty to point out that you’re going off the deep end again with this drug use comparison. There are a lot of recreational drugs out there, including the Ambien in Joey’s mom’s medicine cabinet and the bourbon on my bar. The bourbon would tend to exacerbate domestic violence in someone else’s house, which is, I’d say, if not terrorism, a source of terror. Care to narrow it down?

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