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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Insoluble Situations

The simple fact of the matter is that some situations have no good solutions. Young people, tend to be arrogant and believe that the world can be improved in every aspect, but, young people, and especially academics, tend to be arrogant in general. Unfortunately, any problem has many people, of good intelligence, working on it, and being unable to, for one reason or another, come up with a workable solution. Now, I am not saying that we should not discuss such things, but a little humility when thinking about them is appropriate. There is a reason that these problems are still problems, and that is that they are difficult, and some impossible, to solve.

I call these the insoluble situations. What I mean by this is that any course of action is going to take sacrifice, and will end up unfairly hurting a portion of the population. I have a historical example of such a situation. The Soviet Union. And let's face it with a regime death toll ranging anywhere from 10 to 50 million (possibly more if you count the international deaths caused by it), the resolution was hardly any good. But there was no good solution. Going to war would've been even more catastrophic.

There are a few modern situations like this. The situation in the Middle East, in Iraq and Israel are likewise insoluble. Someone is going to get hurt unfairly no matter what. But don't despair Fortunately there are situations that do have good solutions (not necessarily painless, but at least good). Global warming is one that does.

So, what I want to tackle in this post are some suggestions for dealing with problems that could be insoluble. For this, I have two suggestions, and I welcome more. First, don't make assumptions. Approach the problem humbly, look at what others have suggested, and always look at the flaw in your own plan (it will have one). Stating it to someone else will probably help you, because they're more likely to find the flaw.

Second, don't be afraid to compromise. Compromise is not a bad word. Although "uncompromising" is often used as a compliment, it really shouldn't be. Not everyone is going to get a fair deal, but a compromise is better than nothing. I mean, when in high school, one of my teachers had a poster on their door saying "Stand up for what you believe is right, even if you're standing alone." That sounds all good and inspirational and stuff, but the real situation is much more complicated. It's better to fix most of everything than all of nothing.

So, with this advice I leave you to your own pondering, if you have more suggestions leave them as comments

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Interesting, I agree with most of it. I definitely agree that you should stand up for what you believe in, even if you're standing alone.

Trey said...

There is only one problem I see with telling other people your ideas. Many people tend to either shun new ideas or embrace them too quickly. It seems like in an insoluble situation people would embrace them too quickly. I would say the war in Iraq was a good example of that and still is as far as most of the Republican party is concerned.

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