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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (207256)8/3/2021 4:49:13 PM
From: Lane31 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 362252
 
This is the same mistake you make with regard to politics, generally. That is, you totally discount weighing the alternatives and the statistical expectation of each of them.

Whether I do that or not (I don't), that's not the point. I wasn't considering any alternatives let alone choosing among them. I was simply applying a label to a condition. The label either fits or it doesn't.

In this case it's not a perfect fit. A drunken hook-up while unvaccinated with someone known to have covid would be a better condition to be labeled self inflicted. You're just begging for it if you do that. But refusing vaccination, in general, is a big enough risk that I think the term could be stretched. Your mileage may vary.

This is how rational decision making occurs, weighing risk vs. reward.

But since you brought it up, since you consider the decision rational, we know something of his risk but what could possibly be his reward and how much weight would you assign to it?

I'd think you learned that somewhere in your management education; it seems that perhaps your extreme political leaning is interfering with applying it.

Evaluating risk and reward is utterly independent of politics. It's not rational to entangle them as you have.

FWIW, I would be taking your son-in-law off the Christmas list.
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