10-09-2016, 09:26 AM
(10-07-2016, 04:07 PM)Benton Wrote: If you get asked to prom 7 times and hook up 0, are you any better than the guy who got asked 1 time and hooked up 0?
If you have 7 cases before the SCOTUS and lose 7, are you any better of a lawyer than the guy who had 1 case heard and lost it?
If you get arrested 7 times for assaulting a Frisch's Big Boy, are you a more successful criminal than a guy who assaults a Frisch's Big Boy once ad gets arrested?
If you run for office 7 times and don't get elected, are you a better politician than a guy who runs for office 1 time and loses?
What circumstance does failing in larger quantity equate a better job done? Maybe the guy who loads the guns for a firing squad, but not much else.
The only example that works in this analogy is the prom example. It is an accomplishment to go to the prom, but a failure not to hook up once there. It is an accomplishment to make the playoffs, but a failure not to win once there.