When you open a Pandora's Box, do you try whatever you can to stuff the whole mess back in again? Which comes to mean that you are returning affairs to a previous slate. I see Correctives among you nodding your head. Not quite folks. Not quite.
What is a Pandora's Box to you? Lest this develop into a full fledged theological debate, let us try to make a discourse by defining our scope of discussion. This way, we can better direct our constructive energies and see fruition in the manifestation of valuable takeaways.
A Pandora's Box basically is a receptacle that holds plenty of horrid things that haven't seen the light of day. However the Pandora's Box is plainly out there for all to see.
So now back to the question i set foremost (which seems antediluvian now).
It is either you are a Corrective i.e. you are in favour of analogously, restoring the balance to the tipped scale. Pardon me for drawing you away to an analogy when we were already at one, i am sure your intellectual wits would have you with me still. In any case, if you are that thick I don't suppose you should be lingering around at this length. You should be snoring away in apparent boredom at the whole affair!
If you aren't a Corrective, then in my opinion you should be a Mediator. Now, at this point in time, i would like to stress (unduly no doubt) that i have constricted the realm of possibilities in terms of one can possibly construe (in opinion) to two discrete values. No continuum here. No spectrum. No greys to make things a little less complex. A Mediator does not see merit in restoring balance. He is not keen to return the system to a state before a calamitous event for one good reason. That the calamitous event occured, there must exist an element or two present in the system inherently which induce the calamitous change, so as to speak. To return the system to where it was originally by doing a plain "System Restore", that is being thick. What good is that? Nought.
If you open the Pandora's Box, jolly well do something about the mess you have created. Packing it all back makes no sense. Especially when the mess here refers to really dangerous stuff. Are we really that pleased to stuff those dangerous stuff back where there exist yet another potential possibility of someone else coming along and innocuously opening the Box? I don't suppose so. Clean it up!
If you have dust beneath a carpet and you have been dull in the mind to know that, when it does finally dawn on you, shouldn't it be the case where you ought to sweep it up and dispose the dust for good? Sweeping the dust back to the carpet. What good is that? It simply smacks of a desire to be disengaged with chores, smacks of a "can't be bothered" attitude.
The worst thing of all, is that you are being defeatist and cowardly. When you have a problem, solve it head on instead of trying to throw it back to where it rightfully belongs (or so you think) And so, here arise another facet of the possible mentality borne possibly by someone who is in conflict with a Mediator. He is in self denial. The Pandora's Box is plain to see for all, a banshee of trouble and he chooses to walk by and worse of all, put it all back there and pretend nothing has ever happened.
Inexonerable.
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