Depends on if it's an everyday thing or a once in awhile thing. I think even my TV-deprived kids have had two hour cartoon fests while we've been travelling or they've been visiting in other people's homes.
We don't watch them. We don't play them. Why on earth would we go to a game hating sports the way we do? We wouldn't.
Same with travel. Why do something you are going to not want to do the whole time you are packing (which you hate to do) knowing you've got to eat out, pack, have the hassel of travel for the future few days.
>>So following your "logic" on what constitutes an "educated" decision . . . if I read the studies regarding how harmful smoking is, yet I "disagree" with these studies findings and continue to smoke, I have made an "educated" decision.<<
You posted:
>>No.<<
I logically took your "no" to mean that my decision was not an "educated" decision.
It says she looked at the risks and they didn't scare her. This is really no different than me getting in my car and driving even though I am very aware of the risks. Making an educated decision does NOT translate into making a decision that is the least risky. It just means looking at the risks and deciding whether or not you still think it's worth it. If you decide you DO still think it's worth it, that doesn't mnake the decision suddenly become uneducated.
This is like religious types who try to convert me. They think I am not a member of their religion mainly because I have not educated myself about it and if I just read their pamphlet and attended one of their meetings, I'd convert. I've read their pamphlet many times (if in a really long and boring line) and still didn't convert. If somebody decides to watch lots of TV even after being told of and reading articles on its detrimental effects, then that actually is an educated decision. She read the articles, read the posted arguments, and came to a conclusion that many think should not be arrived at after reading the articles. But she did.
Many people think that if evidence is sufficiently compelling, everybody who considers it will make the same decision based on that evidence and people who fail to make that decision obviously haven't weighed the evidence. It's not true for religion. It's not even true for science (or nobody would believe in Creationism). And it's not true here.
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That's not what I am saying.
PumpkinAngel
I did make one. I just did different than what the research told me.
Paige
Funny I could have sworn you said.....
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Now it does matter?
PumpkinAngel
I've stated all we do. It is more than plenty for us.
We don't like to go out. To go out to eat. To socialize. To get togethers. To party (in any type of party form). To travel. It isn't us.
We have over 100 channels. Unlike you, I can't imagine not finding something on at any time I flip the tv on.
Paige
We aren't giving up stuff to do it.
We are doing after we do the other stuff in life.
Sorry. Strep throat & I'm feeling horrible. DD & Dh has it. We are all sick. I just wanted to talk join the board while they are sleeping.
Paige
We don't watch them. We don't play them. Why on earth would we go to a game hating sports the way we do? We wouldn't.
Same with travel. Why do something you are going to not want to do the whole time you are packing (which you hate to do) knowing you've got to eat out, pack, have the hassel of travel for the future few days.
Pointless.
Your post is right.
Paige
I posted:
>>So following your "logic" on what constitutes an "educated" decision . . . if I read the studies regarding how harmful smoking is, yet I "disagree" with these studies findings and continue to smoke, I have made an "educated" decision.<<
You posted:
>>No.<<
I logically took your "no" to mean that my decision was not an "educated" decision.
This is like religious types who try to convert me. They think I am not a member of their religion mainly because I have not educated myself about it and if I just read their pamphlet and attended one of their meetings, I'd convert. I've read their pamphlet many times (if in a really long and boring line) and still didn't convert. If somebody decides to watch lots of TV even after being told of and reading articles on its detrimental effects, then that actually is an educated decision. She read the articles, read the posted arguments, and came to a conclusion that many think should not be arrived at after reading the articles. But she did.
Many people think that if evidence is sufficiently compelling, everybody who considers it will make the same decision based on that evidence and people who fail to make that decision obviously haven't weighed the evidence. It's not true for religion. It's not even true for science (or nobody would believe in Creationism). And it's not true here.
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