If your house was on fire would you take an incremental approach to putting it out?

Aug 6, 2021 路 5:47 AM UTC

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I'd just shoot him.
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Let's assume that your house does not contain 400 million people or prop up the world economy. Let's instead assume that your house is just literally your house. If it were on fire, would you take an incremental approach to putting that fire out or not?
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The metaphor that @marwilliamson is using here is "your house is on fire", not a forest fire or "fires in general". Your house is on fire. Do you fight it "incrementally"? The point of the metaphor is that sometimes a crisis is urgent and extreme and demands an extreme response.
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Don't forget the risk of being overly cautious and letting the fire spread to other houses nearby or failing to rescue anyone still inside the burning house.
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And sometimes people use sophisticated thinking to obscure the issues and sow confusion over what's at stake.
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Great! We are in agreement. I refer you to my original point which is that the fire is not left to burn indefinitely and forever.
and one and one make a hundred @skrying4poetry
6 Aug 2021
Replying to @BalkusAnthony @marwilliamson
Marianne is referring to the type of incrementalism that never puts the fire out, actually. Never heard of fire fighters leaving the fire alone before it was entirely extinguished. Have you?
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You鈥檝e obviously never fought fire.
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Are you seriously trying to pull some Ben Shapiro-level fACtS aNd LOgiC on "Your house is on fire?" Seriously?
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