Hurray! Any argument based on ‘should’ is usually deeply flawed, it is far better to look at what ‘is’ (whether you like it or not).
John Fembup
From Machiavelli’s The Prince
” . . .how we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
Or perhaps more simply but no less aptly, Mark Twain advice to “get the facts first – you can distort them later.”
Either way – it’s first essential to know “what is” – not what one hopes or wishes to be true, or what one thinks “should” be true.
Hurray! Any argument based on ‘should’ is usually deeply flawed, it is far better to look at what ‘is’ (whether you like it or not).
From Machiavelli’s The Prince
” . . .how we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
Or perhaps more simply but no less aptly, Mark Twain advice to “get the facts first – you can distort them later.”
Either way – it’s first essential to know “what is” – not what one hopes or wishes to be true, or what one thinks “should” be true.