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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Maybe there is a flaw with ranking things as singularly more important than others in cascading order... World might be more complicated than that.
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Well it was and people answered.
Ranking things as singularly more important than others in cascading order is a very necessary tactic of survival in the very real very harsh world. People do it a lot when resources are tight. People around the world are always having to chose between things that should never be opposing each other.
This survey asked what was more important and Ranking things as singularly more important than others is a good way to draw out true motivations and see what actually can be sacrificed for what if you absolutely must chose one. Sometimes you'll find that one thing is actually not as important than another after you are forced to think about it.
A related example was when I got my second desktop I obviously thought I would need to transfer files from the old one. And there were a lot. After using the new computer for longer and longer I never did. It turned out none of that stuff was so irreplaceable or necessary. I never would have thought that while I had it and yet within a year I dissembled the hard drive to see how the insides worked. To think that everything on the hard drive was less important than my basic understanding of the engineering behind it.
That is the sort of thing "ranking things as singularly more important than others in cascading order" can sometimes have and for good benefit. Don't discount the method.