If you can do anything, then you can do nothing, so you cannot do anything.?

Question

How is it wrong^_^
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Answer 1

It's not wrong, and it's not paradoxical (it doesn't actually contradict itself)

If you can do anything, then 'nothing' is one of the things you can 'do'.

Similarly, if you can choose to eat any proportion of a cake, then 'none' is one of the proportions you can choose.

Answer 2

Initially, you feel that if you can do anything, you drive your energies in different directions & lack focus, wasting your time, talents, energies & sometimes not doing justice to your talents or not delivering that core expertise which is expected by others. .....

However, If you just go about doing anything then in the long run it benefits you, since it gives you experience in anything and you can become a more wholesome person. You realise your true instinct, talent. You starting loving the work which gives you maximum satisfaction/ results. Thus you don't end up being a specialist or a nerd but a more wholesome human-being.

Also, in todays world being multiskilled makes you more practical or earthly, it saves cost and the other person will entrust you with more responsibilities as they know that you can deliver, you will explore all options, you will try all options available, they will trust you. Hence, if you can do anything you can be the one-stop-solution which any person /company would love to be with as it saves a lot of time/money/etc.

Even, I would love to associate with you as i feel you are not a sticky or confined or a boring person ..

However, you may need to be more strategic/ intelligent in slowly driving your energies towards the field/ talent which is best suited to you i.e. which you love doing most but not limiting narrowly to that area alone. this is a gradual process which you will surely gain with experience.

Answer 3

Okay, so this question is right up there with: If God is all powerful can He make a rock that He can't pick up?

It's a circular question. That is to say that if he is all powerful, then he should be able to make a rock he can't pick up, but if he is all powerful, he should be able to pick up the rock, but then he wouldn't have made a rock he can't pick up ... etc. There is no answer to this particular one.

*However* your question is a little easier. If you "can" do anything, "can you do nothing"? Of course you can do nothing. I am all powerful. I *choose* to do nothing. There. Done. You did not dictate that I *have* to do something, only whether or not I am *capable* of doing anything.

Another example of this kind of circular thinking is the classic example of a person declaring "I refuse to make a choice." In reality they have *chosen* not to make a choice. So their statement is a moot one.

Hope that helps.

Answer 4

Your question is similar with the utterance Paul of Tarsus said the cretans in the New Testament: " Cretans are liars, evil bruts, lazy gluttons". People say that Socrates is the author of this afforism. But Socrates was Creatan, so he was a liar, so the cretans aren't liars, evil bruts, or lazy gluttons at all.
Your question is paradoxical and I suppose you can do anyhing you want whenever you are asked to do nothing. Lia Spring.

Answer 5

A person who can do anything probably has enough money to be able to sit around doing nothing, at least once in awhile!

Answer 6

If I can do anything, I will end up doing "something", so I can do "something" , and as they say, something is better than nothing :)

Answer 7

I can do anything I want. I can also do nothing if I want. What do you want?

Answer 8

Hey bro!!! You need to review your basic philosophy course on logic. This is a very good example of a very bad syllogism!!!

Answer 9

it is wrong because your last statement contradicts your first statement whereas your second statement is merely an elaboration of the first.

Answer 10

if u can do anything, it is possible to do nothing.