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Underground eXperts United
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[ Less Known Dilemmas ] [ By The GNN ]
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LESS KNOWN DILEMMAS
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by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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In this file you will find five different dilemmas, rather common in real
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life. I do not claim that these are especially good ones - but, then, even
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the enigmas invented by Zeno and his friends back in the good old days are
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claimed to be false too. So, at least I am in good company.
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(1) THE ANDERS/ELLEN PROBLEM
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Anders and Ellen are a happy couple that suffers from the minor malady that
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neither of are able to stand large amounts of alcohol, but they cannot stop
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drinking after the first drink (a very common habit.) Therefor, both of
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them are trying to prevent the other one from heavy drinking at parties, so
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that the evening will not end up at a puke-o-rama at the toilet.
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A/E has bought a bottle of whiskey, that they have decided to enjoy this
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evening. If we suppose that the bottle contains around 10 drinks, and that
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A/R are only able to drink 2 each before they end up at the toilet, it means
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that they will start preventing each other from drinking after 2 drinks.
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When E has poured the third glass, A will take it away, and vice-versa. But
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the drink A has taken away from E, he will drink himself (due to the 'cannot
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stop' phenomenon). The drink that E has taken away from A, she will drink.
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So, by taking away each others drinks for the sake of not ending up at the
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toilet, the result will be that they both end up at the toilet, saying their
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prayers to the porcelain throne the whole night.
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(2) LENNY'S DILEMMA
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Lenny is a calm man who never hurts anyone, except when he is insulted.
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At a bar, he meets an individual, A, who claims that all people who are
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named such a criminal name as 'Lenny' are, by nature, violent people (A need
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not to know Lenny's name) that attacks other people without reason. Lenny is
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not a violent man, but since A at the bar indirectly insults him by claiming
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that he his violent, Lenny will get violent and punch the smart-ass in the
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face. This means that the individual will say that he were right, and that
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Lenny was a violent man, even though Lenny is not.
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(A quick objection to this idea is to say that Lenny is, de facto,
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violent since he actually hits A. But then you have missed the 'without
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reason' point, and the deduction from the indirect insult.)
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(3) BACKFIRE OF AGONY
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Eric cannot write on his Masters essay if he is in a state of agony. It is
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due to be handed in the end of this term, and Eric has decided to begin
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writing tomorrow.
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But for every day that passes, Eric feels more and more distressed due to
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the fact that he has not written anything yet. If we suppose that agony can
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be measured on a scale: 1, ..., N, were 1 is minor agony and N (infinite
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number) agony deluxe, and that a state each state prevents him to write the
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same number of pages, Eric cannot write the first page tomorrow since he is
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in state of agony 1. The day after yesterday, Eric will be in state 2 of
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agony, and will be even less able to write something. When the semester is
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over, Eric cannot have finished his essay since he cannot get out of the
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increasing states of agony.
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(4) THE PARADOX OF EGO-FILES
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Let us suppose that the levels of egoism in a group of people who produces
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an e-zine can be divided into three; 1) no egoism whatsoever, 2) normal
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level of egoism and 3) incredible egoism.
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Those who writes files that are meant to the expose how wonderful the
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particular group they are members of will end up in 2. But those who do not
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write any such files will not end up in 1. Instead, they will end up in 3.
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This is because the fact that they do not write ego-files will show that
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they are so self-occupied that they believe that need not to write such
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files. Therefor, the group that do not write ego-files will be regarded as
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more egoistic than those who do. This paradox can be a bit more easy to
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understand if you consider the slogan "modesty is the art of encouraging
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people to find out for themselves how incredibly wonderful you are."
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(5) THE IMPOSSIBILITY TO BE YOURSELF
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Agent A is a person who is very strange, i.e. he is not like everybody else.
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He acts in an uncommon way and has weird interests. He is like this because
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he wants to be himself, thus not conform to the more 'common' people and
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become a person who is not.
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But since he does not act like the 'common' people, these people will
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believe that he is pretending to be someone else (because they compare him
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to themselves), and therefor demand him to be 'himself' and stop 'acting.'
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If A begins to act like these people, they will happily conclude that he
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is now 'himself,' while the truth is that he is not. In the end, the agent
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cannot escape to be, or be regarded as, someone who is not what he is, but
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what he is not.
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My best regards to Anders Nygards, Ellen Pollack, Lenny Sonesson, Eric
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Sundelin, the global e-zine scene and Karin Hakansson who invented these
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'problems' without really knowing about it.
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