Nobody wants choice. That is true.
Everyone wants choice. That is also true.
There is no “paradox”, inconsistency or contradiction here.
Outside of mathematics, the statement true = false is as often true as false.
That’s because you have a different idea of ‘choice’ in the respective predicate.
There are now well over 6 billion flesh and blood folks living around the globe. Have you personally interviewed all of them in order to determine that 1] no one wants choice because 2] everyone wants choice?
What were the empirical components of your study?
Have others sought to replicate your findings?
And why is this not just another one of your Silly Ideas?
It’s not the result of a study. It’s a paradox, and both statements could be false, and they’d still be contradictory.
JJ,
The title says somethings been explained. It hasn’t.
Here’s the resolution:
An individual does not want choice but a totality of individuals may require a number of different things. The fact that many individuals want different things does not mean that any one of them are choosing.
It wasn’t a paradox in the first place!
To falsify a premise “Everybody wants x”, all I need to do is find one individual who does not want x.
There. You see: “Everybody wants choice” is now falsified.
And so: You’ve contradicted yourself.
I take my leave.
Yes, that’s my point. It’s made up entirely out of words. There is no nobody. There is no everybody. There is no “thing” that is true. There is no “thing” that is not true.
Thus the “explanation” is analogous to a dog going around and around in circles chasing its tail.
Hmm…
You create your own private paradox out of words and then you use more words to create your own private resolution.
Kind of reminds me of Tragically Hip:
Interesting and sophisticated
Refusing to be celebrated
It’s a monumental big screen kiss
It’s so deep it’s meaningless
erg…
An individual does not want choice, but many individuals, everyone, want a variety of things to fufill their needs. THis is what we call choice. No contradiction.
It’s not a private resolution.
An individual wants one thing.
Many individuals (everyone, etc) require a variety of things to fulfill the single want of each individual.
This, obviously, does not mean that an individual wants choice.
An individual wants many things. An individual needs many things. An individual chooses many things. The far more interesting questions are: Why choose this instead of that? What in your past predisposed you to choose this instead of that? Is there a way to determine what you ought to choose?
Remember when Ann asked Graham why he taped videos of women talking about sex? Remember his answer?
Enough said. Simple reasoning that defeats the OP. Should have brought a natural end to the thread.
My point worked because I made a distinction between everyone as a collection of individuals and the solitary individual. You never made that distinction. The collection needs choice - different objects - to make sure that each individual can have the one thing that he wants.