Thursday, April 24, 2025
ESSAY: THOUGHTS, OPINIONS, AND BELIEFS
On many issues, I have thoughts, opinions, and beliefs. But, I have limited access to facts... and facts include outcomes. If I don't know what actually caused the problem, and I don't actually know all the possible solutions (the ones which could be applied at THIS time), and I cannot KNOW the future outcome of any "solution", HOW can I KNOW that MY choice is any better than another of several others?
If my neighbor "believes" as strongly as I do, yet as without knowledge as I, in his or her interpretation and solution, what makes mine "best", or even "better"? It is a complicated world we live in.
Experts and facts can be found to support every side of any multifaceted problem or event. We hire people, ordinary people, politicians, to sort through this morass of information and misinformation, and reach decisions for us.
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They, human and limited as they are, hire other humans to hunt down, summarize, and encapsulate information on the given problem(s), and then, take it upon themselves, as we asked, to make decisions for us, based upon the results of this research... AND their own, quite human, thoughts, opinions, and beliefs.
THEN, we either idolize them and put them on pedestals reserved for the gods, or we castigate and reject them, demanding they be cast into the lowest depths of hell.
I am NOT fond of career politicians, but, I don't want their job either.
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Labels: beliefs, donovan baldwin, essay, opinions, thoughts
# posted by Donovan Baldwin @ 4:55 PM 
