A false dilemma is when a statement is presented as only ever involving two choices. I didn't say there are only ever two choices. I presented a single possible scenario as a Popperian Black Swan to your assertion that not jumping into a shark tank would always be "good".
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As for your second sentence, that is a complete non-sequitur to what I said.
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But what if not throwing myself into the shark tank meant that I would have later discovered that my wife was cheating on me, then lost my job, then been kidnapped by a serial killer who slowly raped and mutilated me to death over a period of 40 days.
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That's not what false dilemma means. In any case, my point is that you couldn't prove that such a sequence of events wouldn't happen. Therefore you cannot authoritatively declare that not jumping into a shark tank would always be a good outcome.
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What if you impose a temporal frame of reference?
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Then why do anything, since there’s no way to evaluate the outcome?
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I think you've stepped into the territory of "too much philosophy"

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"In the long run we're all dead" - Keynes
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