zero sum game

My father believes...

that life is a zero sum game.

that one should only administer the antidote after the corpse is cold.

You are getting ever more poetic, Brianna.

footfootfoot;801287 wrote:

You are getting ever more poetic, Brianna.

I am 100 words for crazy.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

-Tyler Durden

World Death Rate Holding Steady At 100 Percent
- The Onion

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND—World Health Organization officials expressed disappointment Monday at the group's finding that, despite the enormous efforts of doctors, rescue workers and other medical professionals worldwide, the global death rate remains constant at 100 percent.

Well, yea, unless the game of life is in a Nash Equilibrium. Then you might be able to come out ahead. But, that being said, you're still gonna die. Which reminds me of a line from one of my favorite songs...Jesus loves me, but you're going to fry.

Brianna;801277 wrote:

My father believes...

that life is a zero sum game.

that one should only administer the antidote after the corpse is cold.

The water fills the bowl, receives the foulness, and is flushed away.

Is this going to become another maths thread?

give up bacon, die anyway.

footfootfoot;801287 wrote:

You are getting ever more poetic, Brianna.

ZenGum;801381 wrote:

Is this going to become another maths thread?

One can only hope.
I don't mean he believes a zero sum game as in death. I mean he thinks if he wins that I lose and vice versa - that
life is a competition, a fight to the death, that some MUST
be thrown overboard. It is a niggardly way to be.

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No point stressing about life. No one makes it out alive anyway.

Brianna;801394 wrote:

One can only hope.
I don't mean he believes a zero sum game as in death. I mean he thinks if he wins that I lose and vice versa - that
life is a competition, a fight to the death, that some MUST
be thrown overboard. It is a niggardly way to be.

I disagree. Though I don't like the phrase, I believe there can often be "win-win" situations.

ZenGum;801381 wrote:

Is this going to become another maths thread?

Yes. We are attracted to it like maths to a flome.

Dim sum game: Try to bounce the dumplings into the rice noodles. Use of a spring roll is prohibited.