User:Fasten/YHVH/Dictionary/TINA
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TINA: There is no alternative. Whenever somebody, for not adequately analyzed reasons, makes the claim that his or her plan has no alternatives it is very likely that the in-tuition "You have no choice" is involved.
- Complement: There may be alternatives you need to explore.
- "You have no choice" is also the perception of animals in human captivity or in cages.
The intuition to build cages could be the question "Can you do that?" and as long as you lack the ethics to reject it that ethically justifies the intuition there is no alternative by precedent, even when it's meaning is "There are alternatives you might want to explore". [1]
- [1] The intend of the speaker may be benevolent but the result would be adversarial nonetheless, as long as unethical [2] precedent permits this.
- [2] The judgement what is ethical or unethical would be left as an exercise to the listener, the judgement applied would merely be what precedents justify what action, not if that is ethical to do or not, see precedent.
[edit] See also
- Pattern: TINA
