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by tarotuser 1203 days ago
I think you misread a word.

I said that every decision is irreversible, not reversible. Every last one. No exceptions.

Some things can be reviewed and done again, but again, those retries are also irreversible.

Just that most choices we do, even though being irreversible, are of little consequence. Like, there's not much impact between eating fried chicken vs pizza, or deciding between 2 movies. But... How does one unwatch a movie, or uneat pizza? Simply put, we can't. Hence irreversible.

Note that decide's root is -cide ,or kill. To decide is to kill a certain future or class of futures. That's a very interesting, yet often used term without realizing its root is of death.