Black and White-or shades of gray??
By vega83
@vega83 (6342)
Bahrain
April 7, 2007 7:21am CST
I have always believed that there is more than one way right way to do things. I know that there is a wrong and then there is a right, but in between those two extremes, there are lots of ways to do the right thing but just not what everyone agrees with.
For example, rules. There are people who go exactly by the rules and the opposite who break these rules, and then there are people who work with the rules to their convenience and twist them or work around them or take the middle path.
What do you think, is there always just one right way to do things or several, or is there just one wrong and one right?
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@MrCoolantSpray (1005)
• United States
9 Apr 07
I thought this was another photography discussion. Oops.
There are always several ways to do something, and there are always right and wrong ways to do stuff. People are generally a selfish lot. Even altruists are selfish, although their selfishness is for extremely delayed gratification. People want to bend the rules to get the best deal. So, I'd say most people delve in shades of gray.
Might be interesting to make a personality test (like the Type-A kind of thing) based on Ansel Adams' Zone System. Zone 1 = pure evil and Zone 9 = imminent Canonization
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@vega83 (6342)
• Bahrain
9 Apr 07
ha ha, gotcha!
you thought it was a photography discussion.
Anyway, you seem to be an expert in this area too.
True, most people do delve in the shades of gray. But I've come across people who are so badly followers of extreme rules or people who have no regard for these rules at all.
Makes me wonder, how do they choose the extremes that they do? And what influences that?
By the way, this personality test sounds interesting, any idea if I can take such a test online, it does sound like something I took on tickle.com, but I'm not sure it was exactly that.
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@MrCoolantSpray (1005)
• United States
9 Apr 07
I just made it up in my head. No such test exists, that I know of. If I knew more about the human mind/psyche, I'd right a book about it, like all those other personality assessment tomes out there. If you want to make it yourself, go right ahead. Just give me a byline. :)
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@vega83 (6342)
• Bahrain
9 Apr 07
oh, i thought there already was one.
I guess if I get any left-over time after playing my video games and being online, I might just do that.
Just the fact that I have a personality would qualify me to formulate such a test, right?
At least that's what most people who formulate such tests seem to think, but it's just more fun for me to take such tests than to make them.
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@Dumpertaker (1187)
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8 Apr 07
Although there is right and wrong (always have been and always will be) there are the shades of grey, as there are certain degrees of "wrongness" and "rightness" and sometimes things that are both right and wrong.
At the risk of sounding harsh, a person who cannot see the shades of grey needs to be shown a new perspective.
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@vega83 (6342)
• Bahrain
9 Apr 07
I don't think you sound harsh saying that, just a little less gray, and more black or white.
I have always believed in the degrees of the gray and not the extremes of the white and the black.
I think I would give credit to most people on seeing the shades of gray but of course there have been and will always be, the extremists who make black and white so different from each other, and make the wrongs sound so wrong or the right sound so difficult.
@PIITZY (749)
• Romania
7 Apr 07
well i certainly dont see life in black or white theres always a grey wich in most cases is the best way but hey not everyone has to think like me and thats okey i can understand there opinion but not necessarly agree with them .. oh and a happy EASTER:)
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
7 Apr 07
I do agree with you. It is hard to put a definite right or wrong to things. Too many grey areas to consider. :P
@vega83 (6342)
• Bahrain
7 Apr 07
Plus I think that in order for ourselves to fully understand on our own without the influence of others in our lives, we have to decide our own rights and wrongs and view all possibilities and all the gray areas, that's what would make you, 'you' and me, 'me'.
