With the caveat that the word is often cheatingly used in such a way as to make lust wicked merely by definition (the Oxford English Dictionary calls it a "degrading animal passion"), it is hard not to be seduced by Mr Blackburn's sweet reasonableness.So what is lust?
Now, she explained, "A bug that eats a plant — or another bug — is not my definition of wicked.
As wicked problems are by definition societal and cultural, they always involve people, and mitigation strategies to these problems always involve some form of service.
This research will present arguments to justify why such manufacturing system design problems can be considered to fall under the definition of wicked problems especially when customer requirements, hence products, evolve over time.
After arguing for years that "the ends justify the means" in all things military, they would stare at you blank-faced if you asked them a simple question like: "Who would Jesus torture?" Because that doesn't fit in their definition of "wicked" at all.
These characteristics, where any attempt to solve a problem will generate new ones, is analogous to the definition of wicked problems, which have no ultimate solution [14].
Prior definitions of wicked problems by, e.g. Rittel and Webber [7] and Termeer, Dewulf, and Breeman [36] use different specifications, but the overall characteristics of the current class of problems are much alike.
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The stand-off in the Holy Land is the very definition of a wicked problem: "a social or cultural problem that is difficult or impossible to solve for as many as four reasons: incomplete or contradictory knowledge, the number of people and opinions involved, the large economic burden, and the interconnected nature of these problems with other problems".
