Warnock's Dilemma

Warnock's Dilemma offers no clean exit, only a choice of regrets. Choose the regret you can respect.

What helps is deciding in advance what you value more, before the pressure arrives. In the moment, pressure does the deciding, and pressure has poor judgement.

Stand at a tea stall during a big cricket match and you will see a hundred strangers become one family in an evening. The same crowd, given a different match, can split over a surname.

Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. You will meet this idea again this week, wearing different clothes. Now you will recognise it.