Questions and Answers Pt 3

For every question there is more than one answer.  The answer that we choose is not necessarily the correct one, or the best one, but the one we find is most acceptable to us.  And this is why there are so many different answers to situations - everyone sees the question in a slightly different light and tries to convince others that their way of seeing things is the best.  Few things confirms our worth like someone agreeing that we have found the best way.

This is one reason why there are so many different political ideologies.  Each one has it's good and bad points.  Each one is the acceptable answer for it's followers.  And, or course, each one has it's downfalls - the problems that it creates as it tries to solve other problems.  Even those who fervently believe in the theory find themselves frustrated by what happens in practice.  Communism ends up making everyone poor.  Capitalism ends up making some extremely rich and some extremely poor.

All answers work for some people and fail others.  The same is true on an individual level.  Answers that work for someone else may or may not work for you.  Therefore we find many people who have been trapped into accepting an answer that does not work for them.

How does this happen?  It happens because we can be presented with a bad answer in a very acceptable way.  We can be persuaded into accepting all kinds of things that are detrimental to us because of good marketing.  Now, part of good marketing is creating dissatisfaction with your current situation and offering a way to improve.  The answer they offer for you to accept will clearly solve the problem that has been brought to your attention, but like all other answers there will also be the side effects that were not considered.

So, the long and the short of todays post?  Think.  Consider more than one answer before making a choice.  Consider more than one outcome of accepting a particular answer, because there will be bad as well as good consequences to almost any answer you accept.