Compos Mentis

A Mini-Rant, but I'm not real mad.

I have a little bit to say about political arguments. I might have, in fact, mentioned them before, but now I have reason to mention why I don't engage in them. I've been asked by three different people in the past couple of days what my stance was on a certain issue, and I've had to politely respond that I couldn't give a fair opinion and that, indeed, no one could really give an accurate prediction of a given policy.
All political arguments have one essential flaw in them. They are all arguments with an implied Ceteris Paribus clause, which in latin means all things being equal. People argue that, all other things being equal, this change in policy will have this result. But that is not right at all, since the real world doesn't work with all things being equal; it works with things changing right when you expected them to stay the same, or with things having unintended consequences that come back to mess up the system.
In some settings, I love arguing over politics, but only when it is completely ensured that it is a hypothetical argument, such as in a polisci class or with friends who know me well enough to realize that I will just as easily argue the other side of the argument.
I have a calculus test in a few hours, and this is what I do. This isn't even a finals calc test! I have this test, dead week, and then the final on friday next!
And I can't even talk about my English paper. 12-15 pages...
Japanese Oral...
Japanese Written...
Stupid Japanese out-of-class assignments...
GGAAAh!!!!1
*twitching*
In other news, I have decided to become nocturnal for the summer. More on this later.

posted by Emmett @ 09:16