I Quit!Scaryduck writes, "I celebrated my last day on my paper round by giving everybody next door's paper, and the house at the end 16 copies of the Maidenhead Advertiser. And I kept the delivery bag. That certainly showed 'em."
What have you flounced out of? Did it have the impact you intended? What made you quit in the first place?
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chthonic, Thu 22 May 2008, 12:15)
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@CHCBBenevolent dictatorship...
The point is that there are certain things that we can take it as read would be good for everyone - protection from harm, a degree of wellbeing, and so on. Call these "first order" goods. Additionally, there are certain things that people want that are particular and changeable - call these "second order" goods. And the latter strike me as being what people get too attached to.
For example: people want the NHS. But when it's suggested that taxes may have to rise to pay for it and all the treatments they want, they whinge. Solution: ignore the whinging. Or when people complain about MRSA and demand "deep cleaning", point out that cleanliness is only a small part of the problem and that not allowing so many visitors would do more. If people want x but refuse the means necessary to achieve that x, you have to decide which demand to follow. And that means that people's strongest presently-occurring desire may have to be ignored for the sake of what, when it comes to the crunch, is more important to them.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 29 May 2008, 12:26,
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