To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
Thursday, June 11, 2020
 
If you want to win a fight, choose an opponent of your own calibre. A mouse cannot try to fight a lion not because a mouse has no fight in it but it does not have the same inherent calibre. It's not the mouse's fault that it doesn't have it but I would think it's the mouse's fault if it doesn't realise it. Its survival depends on it so it's unlikely that it's not invested with that minimal intelligence.

I am not interested in animal psychology of course and nor do I know anything about it so the former must be taken only for its analogical value. I was driven to use this analogy in the context of persons who refuse to learn, refuse to listen, refuse to look inward, refuse to chew on mistakes, refuse to inform their opinion with knowledge, refuse to educate themselves on principles of logic... and yet jump into the arena for an argument. It is useless to argue with such a person because if winning consists in learning, of one or the other or both parties, there is no learning to be obtained in this situation. The lion can't be filled with the killing of a mouse nor will the mouse profit by being dead. 

posted by Sylvia D'souza at 2:40 am 0 comments
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