One quote I like goes something like:
Part of life seems to be seeing how many paradoxes you can live with.
Cyracuz wrote:You might say that Kierkegård was right. Think about this paradox:
If you help a friend in need you make him less capable of fending for himself, since he gets less practice. If you leave him to his troubles you make him more capable to fend for himself. What is the friendly thing to do?
With that one, I'd help him just a little, but teach him to solve his own problems.
Its kind of like weight training with a partner in a gym: perhaps the person can only lift 190 pounds. They want to lift 200. You help your partner by just lifting 10 pounds of the 200, then 9.5, then 8, etc., pretty soon if done properly, they can lift 200 by themselves.
But if you had left them totally alone on the goal, they may never have reached 200 pounds.
