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Two things can be bad at the same time.

Posted on by nakam

“The lesser of two evils is still evil.”

Ancient English-language proverb. Even if one thing appears to be less bad than another thing, both of those things are still bad.

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“If I go there will be trouble,
And if I stay it will be double”

from a lyric poem called “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?”, popularized long ago in a kingdom known as England by an artist called “the Clash”. The poem laments the necessity of choosing between two undesirable options: remaining in a toxic relationship, or dealing with the fallout of ending it. The poem repeats pleas for advice throughout, leading some experts to suppose that the poem may have actually been sung as a prayer for divine guidance.

Sometimes, even more things can be bad at the same time.

Three things can be bad at the same time. Four things can be bad at the same time. Many things can, in fact, be bad at the same time; while it is true that two things can be bad at the same time, it is not true that only two things can be bad at the same time.

A visual representation of the ability some ancient Germanic peoples had to recognize multiple things as bad simultaneously; here represented in order from top to bottom, three different political ideologies: Monarchism, Nazism, and Bolshevism. Thus we see that at least some ancients can be shown to have recognized that as many as three things could, in fact, be bad.

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Still of a primitive video recording recovered from an archeological expedition to a ruined datacenter, depicting a re-enactment of a highly ritualized but brutally violent free-for-all battle. The four combatants are believed to have been gods of unknown religious traditions. Little has been gleaned from the archived footage by historians, except that all of these figures were depicted as wielding supernatural powers which they employed to kill each other, after which they would descend from the heavens unharmed and continue the fighting anew. Little is understood about the nature of the enmity between these mythic figures, but it seemed to be understood by the audience within their cultural context. Some have inferred from the full recording that all four of these regenerating deific figures believed each other to be worth combating simultaneously, and some historians suggest that the spectacle could be intended as a parable, warning viewers that sometimes, in some conflicts, there is no so-called “good guy” at all among the combatants, who fight only for their own power to oppress those around them. This may therefore be a very early example of a society in which it was commonly understood that as many as four different things could be bad, even when observing from the same temporal locus.

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Two things can be bad at the same time.

Sometimes, even more things than two can be bad at the same time.