Don't let the terrible be the enemy of the good.

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Less bad is still bad, but preferable to worse.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  First past the post has entered the chat

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  • YICHM@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have no idea about what this means. Would you like to explain?

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Voting system where you only get to vote for a single candidate on the ballot. Basically always means people will vote for the “least worst” candidate

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    • Beryl@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      First past the post is a method of voting, wherein voters mark one candidate as their favoriite, and the candidate with more first-preference votes than any other candidate (a plurality) is elected, even if they do not have more than half of votes (a majority).

      This forces the voter to strategize and vote for what they think is the ‘least worst’ candidate that has a chance to receive the most choices, rather than their favorite candidate. It’s therefore probably the worst form of election, as it encourages status quo and voting based on popularity rather than ideas and programs.

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• WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Less bad is still bad.

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  • unmagical@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If exactly one of the bad options will come to pass anyway though, and you get to influence which one, why wouldn’t you opt for less bad?

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    • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It also usually means you have a better chance of good in the future.

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    • YICHM@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The sources of this post are usually the situations where the options are artificially limited, which are infuriating.

      Maybe I should stop add ‘the’ into my sentence…

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  • YICHM@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Your thought-compressing skill is much better than mine.

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• HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  why would you not choose the good option regardless? This makes no sense. I mean if good is not an option and its between bad and terrible I will take bad. Like if I break in the woods and can’t get to a hospital for surgery I rather have an impromtu splint than impromtu amputation.

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  • YICHM@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I didn’t say that I won’t choose the better (not terrible) option.

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t get the point then? I mean yeah take the bad option but strive to have a good one on the table or to change the bad option to be less bad at least. By no means take the terrible one though or abstain from the 4 person vote where 2 people are gung ho to amputate.

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Binary thinking is what got us where we are in politics.

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• rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For my work, we sometimes use “don’t let perfect get in the way of good enough,” but at this point in time your framing seems particularly apt.

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• pemptago@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve heard it referred to as “The worst negates the bad” fallacy.

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• MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Tell that to the US Democrats.

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What?

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    • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They kept running on, “we’re not Trump!” instead of much of anything good to actually promise their constituents.

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