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one problem

One problem with thinking about doing something is that even if later
you decide that you’re not going to do it, even if later you decide it
would be a bad thing or even a Very Bad thing, even if you’re totally
convinced that you ought not do that thing, the problem is: you already
thought about it. You put it on the table at some point and there it is
on the table forever and always and even if some part of your brain
knows it’s total poison that part of your brain has to constantly be
informing your hands that just because it’s on the table doesn’t make
it potato chips and you cannot either eat just one so just don’t even
start. Don’t even. But you put it on the table once. But it’s still a
really bad idea. No, really it is.

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