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Scruffofthewolf
MemberLife is all about perspective.
SomeInternetGuy
MemberWhat the heck Blue? Of course the other two are right.
… Unless you can avoid both options. XD
user 510392
MemberA bad option is still a bad option lol. Just like how choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
user 68974
MemberYeah, this is conflating "good" with "preferable".
LegitimateParsley
MemberIt begins.
Crayontail01
MemberI'd take a papercut over a stabbing any day!
brx8
MemberWell i personally would prefer getting stabbed, but thats probably just me.
Dragtron
MemberI agree with blue's little bro and green. After all burning down a empty school is better than burning down a Wendy's that has a grumpy worker in it. Because one is completely useless and empty and the other one has the possibility of having nuggies! XD
(for clarification I do not advocate arson)
XaviBun
BlockedWhat's the joke? I feel like this is like a Blondie comic...
cavedude186
MemberDepends where the paper cut is.
PurpleDragon2020
MemberYou made me say Ouch out loud. Is OOL a thing?
SpiteChaotic
MemberLook I can't say either option is good. But I can say that getting a paper cut is better then being stabbed. So there is a "Better" Option rather then a "Good" Option. Sometimes you don't get good option and just need to make the best of what you got.
Like hey you have to be hit either by a car or a shopping cart. While the shopping cart has the least likely chance to be lethal. It still isn't to good of an option. Just the better of the two.
Rabid Rabbids
MemberThere's a bad option, and a worse option.
Clawstripe
JanitorHow and why are you getting stabbed? Getting stabbed to death by a sword through the heart is one thing, but stabbing your diabetic self in the arm with a needle full of insulin is entirely another.
Llollt
MemberI imagine given the context this is clearly intended to be aggressive stabbing by an external agent. The answer is still wrong since neither option is good, but papercut is definitely better than stabbing in that context.
There shouldn't have been a discussion to begin with. Blue is objectively wrong; getting a papercut isn't good. It's just better than the stabbing. Better does not mean good.
Artstatska
MemberEntirely contextual tbh.
Stabbing a needle of insulin into your body can be considered good as a treatment, but unfortunately bad that you have to do it in the first place...
Artstatska
MemberAs long as the paper isn't origami folded into something that could stab, I would go with stab. My thoughts also go to "How is the paper being used to stab, surely if it's just the corner it won't do much" and "Wow paper cuts are hella painful".
MrBlack
MemberAs Blue says, it's not the good option, it's the 'less bad' option.
Better, but not good.
F0x S1mp
Memberit's not a good option but it is þe good option
BXSinclair
MemberCounterpoint: You can get a paper cut or you can get nothing
If you truly believed the paper cut was the "good" option, then you would choose it in this scenario as well
Lunneziisuleyk
MemberThank you! The less bad is better. That doesn't mean it isn't bad; just less bad.
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