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Pintsize: Good is not necessarily nice.
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: sniktchtherat on 22 May 2018, 08:07 ---Specifically regarding the 'replacement Dora': while I'm nowhere near as gung-ho about 'tough love' or 'hard lessons' or whatever cutesy name is being applied to the principle today, it is a simple fact that pain teaches. The three pillars of knowledge are see much, study much, and suffer much for a reason. I far prefer the first and second be applied wherever they can...but some circumstances all but REQUIRE the third option to have any effect. Did Pintsize's action hurt Marten? I think any decent human being can answer that quickly and cleanly. Would it have hurt Marten more in the long term if he'd stayed in a drunken daze, letting the friendship with Dora sour more and more, instead of confronting the elephant in his head?
Doctors sometimes have to do horrible things to people to ensure worse things don't happen to them. I am often glad I am not a doctor.
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You may well be right that Marten needed a hard reset. But that very evening? In that way? If Pintsize has a modus operandi and prefers to do things in a certain way, his commitment to his own style there seemed to push things too far.
But that's almost certainly a YMMV. I don't think your point of view is so unreasonable that I feel I have to convince you otherwise. I guess we have different perspectives on what counts as "Dude, not cool." in this instance, which is fair enough.
sniktchtherat:
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 22 May 2018, 08:48 ---
--- Quote from: sniktchtherat on 22 May 2018, 08:07 ---Specifically regarding the 'replacement Dora': while I'm nowhere near as gung-ho about 'tough love' or 'hard lessons' or whatever cutesy name is being applied to the principle today, it is a simple fact that pain teaches. The three pillars of knowledge are see much, study much, and suffer much for a reason. I far prefer the first and second be applied wherever they can...but some circumstances all but REQUIRE the third option to have any effect. Did Pintsize's action hurt Marten? I think any decent human being can answer that quickly and cleanly. Would it have hurt Marten more in the long term if he'd stayed in a drunken daze, letting the friendship with Dora sour more and more, instead of confronting the elephant in his head?
Doctors sometimes have to do horrible things to people to ensure worse things don't happen to them. I am often glad I am not a doctor.
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You may well be right that Marten needed a hard reset. But that very evening? In that way? If Pintsize has a modus operandi and prefers to do things in a certain way, his commitment to his own style there seemed to push things too far.
But that's almost certainly a YMMV. I don't think your point of view is so unreasonable that I feel I have to convince you otherwise. I guess we have different perspectives on what counts as "Dude, not cool." in this instance, which is fair enough.
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Oh, I completely agree it's an enormous dick move, on a lot of levels. I also think Civil War surgeons performed way too many amputations even considering the conditions they had to operate under - but when all you have is a hammer....
SpanielBear:
--- Quote from: sniktchtherat on 22 May 2018, 08:56 ---Oh, I completely agree it's an enormous dick move, on a lot of levels. I also think Civil War surgeons performed way too many amputations even considering the conditions they had to operate under - but when all you have is a hammer....
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... Don't take up dentistry?
sniktchtherat:
--- Quote from: SpanielBear on 22 May 2018, 09:07 ---
--- Quote from: sniktchtherat on 22 May 2018, 08:56 ---Oh, I completely agree it's an enormous dick move, on a lot of levels. I also think Civil War surgeons performed way too many amputations even considering the conditions they had to operate under - but when all you have is a hammer....
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... Don't take up dentistry?
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You have found the tooth of the matter.
SmilingCat:
You and Marigold have a different dynamic, but there's a lot of ways to do this job.
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