Flexible ethics are bad but mental gymnastics are actually good
Discussion
Some ideas are complex. If you never exercise your brain through mental gymnastics, you will only be able to understand simple ideas.
Insinuating that mental gymnastics is bad is equivalent to claiming complexity is bad
You’re different. You do mental gymnastics for the good. Most others just jump through hoops to excuse what they say or do.
On a second glance I used the term correctly and what you referred to is just thinking deeply. Mental gymnastics implies making excuses.
> Mental gymnastics implies making excuses
It shouldn't. It should be the mental equivalent of physical gymnastics, i.e. precision control over your thoughts even in circumstances that would normally prove distracting
I don’t make the rules 🤷♂️
Take it up with the dictionary authority 😂
As long as you stick the landing