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Which is more important? The cause or the solution?

Which is more important... The cause of a problem, or the solution?

  • The cause

    Votes: 5 35.7%

  • The solution

    Votes: 9 64.3%
  • Total voters
    14
Whovian

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Since there has always been a lot of 'Bush is at fault' posts, I thought I'd ask...
 
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Whovian said:
Which is more important? The cause of a problem, or the solution?
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The solution. But sometimes you have to beat people over the head with the problem until they recognize that it is one.
 
This is fun to think about. But impossible to answer when asked so plainly... because it really depends. If the solution is dependent on the cause or if the problem will persist without determining and preventing the cause, then the cause takes priority. But if you have no reason to believe the cause will continue to create the assumed problem nor will its discovery aid in the solution, then you ought to prioritize the solution. And after the fact, discover the cause so that it may be learned from for the future.

Do you have any parameters?
 
fredmertz said:
This is fun to think about. But impossible to answer when asked so plainly... because it really depends. If the solution is dependent on the cause or if the problem will persist without determining and preventing the cause, then the cause takes priority. But if you have no reason to believe the cause will continue to create the assumed problem nor will its discovery aid in the solution, then you ought to prioritize the solution. And after the fact, discover the cause so that it may be learned from for the future.

Do you have any parameters?
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My initial post gives the parameter in question...
 
I'm not sure if one is "more important" than the other. First one has to recognize that there is a problem in the first place, acknowledge it. Understanding the cause is key to actually formulating a solution. I don't see this as either/or or that one is more important than the other.
 
Obviously the cause. If we know the cause of the problem, a solution can be formulated to try and keep it from recurring.

A solution without a cause is worthless - they are called inventions that went bust!
 
Both. The cause can lead to a solution, and the cause let's you know how to avoid the problem again. The solution lets you fix the problem.
 
Generally when a problem arises, solving it is of more immediate concern than anything else. Determining the cause of the problem however, is also important, as it can teach us lessons on how to avoid that problem in the future.
 
Whovian said:
Since there has always been a lot of 'Bush is at fault' posts, I thought I'd ask...
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Often finding and understand the cause of a problem will lead you to a solution ...
 
Whovian said:
Since there has always been a lot of 'Bush is at fault' posts, I thought I'd ask...
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To me it matters not what Bush caused, whether or not his policies helped lead this country into a recession does nothing to increase my salary. Thus, I only care about solutions, and preventing another like cause from ascending to power again.
 
I'd say the solution but first you have to find EXACTLY what the problem is.
 
Whovian said:
Since there has always been a lot of 'Bush is at fault' posts, I thought I'd ask...
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I say solution. Now if the person who caused the mess is offering the solution then the cause becomes more important. Because how can you trust the solutions that person has to offer?
 
If you don't remove the cause, you could spend an eternity on the solution.
 
Whovian said:
Since there has always been a lot of 'Bush is at fault' posts, I thought I'd ask...
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The cause or solution to what? Many problems can't be solved unless you understand the cause of them.
 
mertex said:
Obviously the cause. If we know the cause of the problem, a solution can be formulated to try and keep it from recurring.

A solution without a cause is worthless - they are called inventions that went bust!
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He didn't ask if one was important and one was not, he asked which is more important... and that is obviously the solution. Knowing the cause is important, like you say, but creating a solution gets you out of the situation. Knowing that they car is not moving due to no fuel is important. But when needing to get somewhere, the solution... putting the fuel into the car is MORE IMPORTANT so that you can actually get there.
 
The cause, this is what we learn from.
The solution is also very important, of course.
Gore should have been less sanctimonious and wore a beard, he would have won,IMO.
 
Bodhisattva said:
He didn't ask if one was important and one was not, he asked which is more important... and that is obviously the solution. Knowing the cause is important, like you say, but creating a solution gets you out of the situation. Knowing that they car is not moving due to no fuel is important. But when needing to get somewhere, the solution... putting the fuel into the car is MORE IMPORTANT so that you can actually get there.
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winner......
 
Both are equally important.
 
Bodhisattva said:
He didn't ask if one was important and one was not, he asked which is more important... and that is obviously the solution. Knowing the cause is important, like you say, but creating a solution gets you out of the situation. Knowing that they car is not moving due to no fuel is important. But when needing to get somewhere, the solution... putting the fuel into the car is MORE IMPORTANT so that you can actually get there.
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Actually they both go together, you can't have one without the other, so they are both equally important. You can't say one is more important than the other.

Your analogy about the car out of gas, if you know the cause - that the car won't go without gas, you will put gas in it and not let it run out, in other words you never need the solution to running out of gas.
 
Whovian said:
Since there has always been a lot of 'Bush is at fault' posts, I thought I'd ask...
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Both are equally important. Without a solution there can be no fix to the cause. Without the cause there can be no solution.
 
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