So what's the optimal perspective then? Is aiming for something less than ideal/best better than aiming for the ideal/best, just because we'll never achieve the ideal/best (if indeed we really won't—have we attained knowledge of its unattainability?)?
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I'm very fond of realism.
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We mustn’t mistake utopians with being optimists. Sure, vision for progress is a good thing, we must strive for it. But utopians are pessimists, unwilling to accept anything but perfection. A most imperfect unattainable perspective
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Yes, you articulated this so well Emmy! I am an optimist and loath to be confused with a utopian
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Evidently, historically. Well said
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It's a failure to think of second order feedbacks and counter-intuitive outcomes.
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They also claim their idealism is evidence of greater Empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. But in reality, since they won't concede that out-group communities and cultures might sometimes wish us harm, they only have weaponised, strategic Sympathy
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Biggest flaw in utopian thinking is the belief that a utopia is actually possible.
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