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This is quite frustraiting but Norton 2006 is usually ?49.99. I managed to get a download from Symantec (publishers) for ?34.99 and I was quite chuffed until this morning when I received an email from amazon.co.uk selling the same package for half price at ?24.99.

Doh!

On a plus point if anyone needs updated anti-virus and firewall software the above is a very very good deal.

The only way to stay sane in these circumstances is to get the best deal you can at the time (not necessarily the lowest price) and then forget about it.

It saves spending too much time in futile regret....

johnriley1uk wrote:The only way to stay sane in these circumstances is to get the best deal you can at the time (not necessarily the lowest price) and then forget about it.

It saves spending too much time in futile regret....

Regret is not futile. Without regret, we would repeat our past mistakes over and over and over and over and over and over again. So how is it that you come to the conclusion of regret being futile?

So how is it that you come to the conclusion of regret being futile?

Regret implies a negative emotional response to a set of circumstances that did not unravel in the optimum way. I say futile because it is only necessary to note how improvement could have been made so that future behaviour can be modified (the process of learning) and it is wasteful of emotional energy to spend time regretting what has already happened.

I don't regret the fact that I managed to download for another ?10 over amazon. After all I managed to get the software straight away. I posted the story so that others could get the best deal around! :D

johnriley1uk wrote:

So how is it that you come to the conclusion of regret being futile?

Regret implies a negative emotional response to a set of circumstances that did not unravel in the optimum way. I say futile because it is only necessary to note how improvement could have been made so that future behaviour can be modified (the process of learning) and it is wasteful of emotional energy to spend time regretting what has already happened.

You can't have one without the other. We regret our mistakes, therefore we do not repeat them. If one did not regret aspects of ones past, then the same mistakes would recur, as the individual would not see the negative aspect to make them regret it.

We regret our mistakes, therefore we do not repeat them.

Alas! If only this were true. Can anyone on this forum claim to have never made the same mistake twice?

As to regretting mistakes, my contention would be that we don't necessarily have to regret them. In fact, we might welcome some mistakes as having opened our eyes to things that we had not been aware of. Mistakes may well just be a part of life....

Of course, we are in danger here of not being totally thorough in our arguments, as I suspect we should have started by defining some of our terms of reference, but hey ho! We all make mistakes....

johnriley1uk wrote:
Alas! If only this were true. Can anyone on this forum claim to have never made the same mistake twice?

As to regretting mistakes, my contention would be that we don't necessarily have to regret them. In fact, we might welcome some mistakes as having opened our eyes to things that we had not been aware of. Mistakes may well just be a part of life....

Of course, we are in danger here of not being totally thorough in our arguments, as I suspect we should have started by defining some of our terms of reference, but hey ho! We all make mistakes....

Yes, I've made the same mistake twice. I keep coming back on here and making posts

I think if you refer to regret as having realised you made a mistake and not wanting to repeat it, I think we regret all mistakes. I don't think you have to do something so serious for it to qualify as regrettable.

I made the mistake of getting engaged to a particular girl once about 11 years ago. I have since then compounded that mistake by getting re-engaged to the same girl (after various break ups) on several occasions. Hopefully I have now pssed through this phase of brainlessness and moved on to better things. Thus I finally managed to learn from the original mistake, even though it took a considerable length of time. :D

Mark Scollon wrote:I made the mistake of getting engaged to a particular girl once about 11 years ago. I have since then compounded that mistake by getting re-engaged to the same girl (after various break ups) on several occasions. Hopefully I have now pssed through this phase of brainlessness and moved on to better things. Thus I finally managed to learn from the original mistake, even though it took a considerable length of time. :D

Yes, Mark. I think nearly any man has made those sorts of mistakes, (though varying in levels and certain complications). I think this may be what happens when one is ruled by one's heart instead of head.