Does Making a New Choice Serve You?

You may not like the choices available, but they are still yours. You can choose to act, or not act; you can choose to be optimistic about the possibilities that exist for your life, or you can accept limitations at every turn.

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  1. Does anyone actually use these Machiavelli-inspired laws or are they purely satirical? Law 31?
    Law 31: Control the Options: Get Others to Play with the Cards you Deal

    The best deceptions are the ones that seem to give the other person a choice: Your victims feel they are in control, but are actually your puppets. Give people options that come out in your favor whichever one they choose. Force them to make choices between the lesser of two evils, both of which serve your purpose. Put them on the horns of a dilemma: They are gored wherever they turn.

    counterspy - April 9th, 2010 at 2:10 pm

  2. Machiavelli is the worst influence in western thought there could ever have been. I dont know why people look to him or quote him or study him.
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    CogitoErgoCogitoSum - April 9th, 2010 at 7:12 pm

  3. I think that people are using this law 31 without knowing it is law 31 in Machiavelli’s work. I guess I have been the victim of this law my whole life. So, yes, some use this law.
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    Jennifer - April 9th, 2010 at 7:14 pm

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