Friday, January 01, 2010

Indestructible Logic

I have had a few experiences lately the resemble what you are about to see.  I have been trying to figure out how any of these experiences could be considered sensible.
  1. Bad things deserve reprimand.
    Employee A is a good worker.
    Employee A derserves reprimand.
  2. One should stay away from bad influences.
    Situation A is a good influence.
    One should stay away from situation A.
  3. Bad ideas should be refuted and abandoned.
    Idea A is a good idea.
    Idea A should be refuted and abandoned.
I have tried for months now to figure out why certain decisions have been made and this has been the logic nearly every time.  For a little while I thought that I was perhaps missing a fact, some other puzzle piece to build upon the major premise before the conclusion was reached.  Perhaps, I mused, I was missing some aspect of the overall nature of goodness.  I may have even missed something like, "There is no knowledge of what to do with good things."  Which may lead one, not to research a possible fate for good things, but mistakenly treat them as bad things, for which the fate was determined explicitly.  But then I realized something, every one of these situations operates on one shared assumption

"Good things are actually bad."

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