why does 手段を選ばない = will do anything?
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why does 手段を選ばない = will do anything?
It means they're not choosy about the means they use to reach a target. They
don't choose their means or measures, they'll do anything to get where they
want to.

The first time I heard this, I thought it was weird too. I thought that by
"not choosing any means", one would end up doing nothing, but I guess it makes
sense to me now.
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選ばない here can mean "not picky, not bothering to choose", or in other words,
indiscriminately. There is a similar idiom in Chinese I'm pretty sure,
although I don't know which one came first since they both date only back to
the 19th century it seems.
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