About our views...

[Knightman]

We collectively dicuss a large array of topics on forum boards. Do you consider yourself as as a solutionist, one who seeks to find a final answer to a problem? or do you see yourself as a critic, one who points out the flaws in lines of dicussions?

[Churlant]

We collectively dicuss a large array of topics on forum boards. Do you consider yourself as as a solutionist, one who seeks to find a final answer to a problem? or do you see yourself as a critic, one who points out the flaws in lines of dicussions?

All of the above and, more importantly, a uhh.. furtherist... for lack of the correct word ;)

That is I often strive to produce further questions from the existing quandry. Spend enough time around here and you'll discover we rarely come up with a solution... at least not one that is agreed upon. So I at least try and throw in additional things that might not have been considered previously...

Or maybe I just like playing :devil: 's advocate a bit too much...

-JC

[cpwill]

both, i point out the errors in other's lines of reasoning because i believe that, when it's said and done, that my solution is the most valid.

[Riddley]

I'm not a solutionist as I tend to mistrust absolutes. I try to put my views forward as coherently as I can (no need to laugh at that) so that the discussion can pick up all of the flavours in a topic.

[Albert]

I’m somewhat of a balloon popper, but hopefully not in a cynical way. I’m always looking for open doors to darkened rooms. I always believe that there is more to issues than meets the eye so in this sense I don’t see or seek solutions only more questions. When we arrive at solutions I see them as temporary, waiting for more information or deeper understanding.

[Sgt Schultz]

Some see the issues in black and white, some in shades of grey where I see the issues in brilliant colour and in 3D.

I don't know if that makes sense to anyone but me but that's my answer.

[Captain America]

both, i point out the errors in other's lines of reasoning because i believe that, when it's said and done, that my solution is the most valid.

And I'm here to point out the flawed arrogance in that line of thinking.

It's a vicious cycle. :lol:

Welcome to WS.

[dhirschp]

Ideally I would consider myself a solutionist. But in reality sometimes the very solutions to the problems makes the problem worse. A good example the prohibition was intended to stamp out alchol abuse yet because of the prohibition crime rates soared.

[Derry&Peek]

I consider myself a sophist for the most part.

But that's only because I'm cynical of any grand 'truth' that we can arrive at.

Still, there are some propositions which seem to worthy of argument because they seem somehow 'true'. (Such as the least distance between two points is a straight line.)

D&P