To the end.

Mephura said:
Really, you have only listed two options. X or not X.
Number 3 doesn't really exist. If you choose X, you aren't chosing not X, and vise versa. It's an either or senario. In or out. Anything else is just uncertainty.
Your example of 3 would be X, then changing to not X. The motivations aren't the question. The choices are.
Number 4 would also be X, just a piss poor way of acting after making your choice. to go back to song lyrics
"If you chose not to decide you still have made a choice"

If you chose not to pick X, then you are chosing not X.
Simple.
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Uh. Rarely are the options we get to choose from simple, non-composite phenomena. For example, "dating Betty" is a composite phenomenon of "dating" and "Betty"; Ben could in fact *date* Betty, but if he chooses option 3, then dating Betty is merely a stepping stone to "dating XY".
It is because our options are composite phenomena, that we always have 4. If the options are non-composite phenomena (which is rare; like being in a sinking boat with two other people, and being able to save only one), then we are indeed facing an either-or, but even then, we can sometimes have the third choice, that of inaction.



But the real question would be what that reason is, now wouldn't it?
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Ah, our confident words, what desperate pleas they are.
 
And now for the best song of all times, The Smiths again:


Take me out tonight
Where there’s music and there’s people
And they’re young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven’t got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and i
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don’t drop me home
Because it’s not my home, it’s their
Home, and I’m welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don’t care
I don’t care, I don’t care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought oh god, my chance has come at last
(but then a strange fear gripped me and i
Just couldn’t ask)

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don’t care
I don’t care, I don’t care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven’t got one, da ...
Oh, I haven’t got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out


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water said:
But it is time for me to go now.
I thank you all for your company. It has been good, very good.
I wish you all the best in your lives.
I hope I will find a kind place in your memory, those who will remember.
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So, you're not going afterall?

What was the purpose of this thread?
 
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