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| May 31 at 2:28 | comment | added | civitas | Some portion of the means are pure luck or chance as you see them - most survivors put it down to courage, skill and knowledge - from the earliest cave painting, carved or raised stone, pride has been present and doesn't pride want legacy. | |
| May 29 at 21:45 | comment | added | Sebastianjoseph333 | Understandable. I agree the means are linked to the ends without a doubt. It is important to have reasonable, achievable ends, so that the means themselves serve as a proper exercise for attaining such ends. | |
| May 29 at 21:42 | comment | added | Weather Vane | @Sebastianjoseph333 I was trying to say that the end may appear to be real (achievable) at first, until one tries to get there. Perhaps the Genie example was misleading: there are other goals that may seem to be attainable, but prove not to be so, or not even valid ends at all. IOW the means are inextricably linked to the ends, rather than "that is what I want, and this is how I shall do it." | |
| May 29 at 21:38 | comment | added | Sebastianjoseph333 | In order for the mean to even exist, there must be an end that is equally as real as the mean. If this cannot be done, then the mean should be redefined as something other than a mean. To say that the ends may be illusory is not wrong when we understand the existence of fiction and non-fiction, however, we cannot be reasonable and suggest that the ends are always illusory while the means must be practical, for the practicality would be exercised for no genuine reason. | |
| May 29 at 20:01 | history | answered | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |