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> if a person tries and fails and I never try; at the end of the day we're both in the same place, no? What a bizarre statement. This is a generalisation that
by strawcomb 9y ago
> if a person tries and fails and I never try; at the end of the day we're both in the same place, no?
What a bizarre statement. This is a generalisation that can easily be shown to be false. If I try and win Gold at the olympics, but fail (only winning silver), I am in a completely different place from you who never tried. There's a million other counter examples.
- rankam 9y agoI think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who considers winning a silver medal to be failing - but yes, failure is subjective. The original premise was about a person who tries being "better than" someone who doesn't try - my argument is simply that the act of trying doesn't automatically make you better.