- Even if ideal as limit is unattainable, it has nothing to do with the usefulness of improvement toward the ideal achievement. Harmful perfectionism is the belief that “if you can’t achieve it, then activities to achieve it are futile.”
- Let x be the larger of the two.
- The “act of adding +1 to x” makes x larger.
- No matter how much +1 you do, you will never reach “infinity” as the limit of magnitude.
- That doesn’t make the “act of +1 to x” futile.
relevance - Not ideal, but best. - The Place of Nothingness
Is it realistically possible to “not take all opinions
- All opinions can be “received” but there is too much information to input into the individual.
- Summarization and visualization cannot realistically achieve “not all opinions are dropped” because some data will be discarded.
- However, the advantage of clusters is that you can direct your attention to more detailed clusters, whereas when you look at live opinions on social networking sites, your view is filled with the top two or three opinions in a cluster, and minor opinions are buried.
- It is difficult to achieve the ideal of “not taking in all opinions,” but it is realistically possible to move in the direction of improving “picking up more opinions” toward that ideal.
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In Plato’s “theory of ideas,” idea (in Platonic thought) as an ideal form cannot actually be attained, but the pursuit of that ideal is meaningful. Similarly, in Aristotle’s “virtue ethics,” the practice or improvement of virtue itself is important, although it is difficult to attain perfect virtue.
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