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Understanding the importance of decision-making
Identifying biases that affect decision-making
Analyzing the potential outcomes of a decision
Philosophical Theory or just Entertainment
Advocating a philosophical theory is not something that is going to drastically alter many people's lives.
Your subtext can be as clever or as repulsive as you want, because most people just want to be entertained.
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Moral issues
The 'Show, don't tell' rule is especially pertinent when it comes to immoral acts.
Until a book becomes moving pictures, any moral issue with it doesn't seem to reach national press levels, because it shows these contentious issues to a wider audience. If you show th...
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Subtext
From a purely technical point-of-view, a subtext is good.
From a moral point-of-view, it depends on what that subtext is.
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GoT's similarities with the Leviathan
A Song of Ice and Fire might very well deliberately echo Leviathan. The notion that, without protection from the Iron Throne, the land falls into an every-man-for-himself struggle does echo the ideas laid down in Leviathan.
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Thomas Hobbes explained
Hobbes, an English philosopher, believes mankind's nature to be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short as described in his book, The Leviathan.
This is why people adhere to social contracts (ceding some rights in return for protection from a governing body) in order to avoid a cri...
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Just do it
“Asking “Why?” can lead to understanding. Asking “Why not?” can lead to breakthroughs.” - Daniel H. Pink
your going to die one day. you can either regret at the end or act upon what you want now.
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Don’t Do, Just Be
Not doing anything is generally considered wrong in a society completely dependent on people doing stuff. All the progress that man has made has been due to action. This has given rise to a doing mentality in the developed world.
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