For a background, please read from page 5 of chapter 436 of Naruto to the end of the chapter.
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/naruto/v47/c436/5.html
In a summary, Pain's mission is to create world peace. The way he does this is by essentially blowing up countries to the point that everyone is too afraid to start conflict. This will work. However, it is to Naruto a quite malfactory solution. Unfortunately, Naruto is not able to answer the question until after an extremely drawn out fight to the death. (If you are interested in this series start from chapter 1... don't want to spoil it lol).
Sometimes, you will know that your enemy is wrong even though you can't give a well-though answer yourself. This happens all the time in politics. Generally speaking, certain political figures will have "answers" (generally Democrats) while others will waist far too much time criticizing the lousiness of such answers while lacking an effective solution themselves (generally Republicans).
Suppose an answer needs to be given immediately. If you choose an ad hoc solution, you will save the lives of millions. But even still, this will cause an ongoing curse of malignancy for the generations to come. If you wait to give a meaningful solution, you can help the future generations, but several million people will die over the next few years because there was no temporary solution.
Which would you choose, and why?
A nice tight belt may be able to fix all those "waist"ful politicians... :P
ReplyDeleteI like the question. I would likely choose an ad hoc solution in the heat of the moment. That is what is required in today's society, specifically in America. The reason politicians, and others, offer up such short term solutions is simply that the people affected by the solutions are selfish, impatient, and single-minded. We want the thing that is best for US, and we want it NOW. That type of thinking is so prevalent that almost nothing EXCEPT temporary solutions are even considered. Examples of this are obvious in history. People always want the change best for THEM, THEN, and they get it, to the dismay of future generations, who look at history asking why they didn't do what was best for US. In the end, the ad hoc solutions are so much simpler that sometimes we don't even see the choice, so by human nature I would probably choose an ad hoc solution, not knowing there was a better answer until it was too late.