It’s a heuristic. It’s up to one’s judgement how or whether to apply it in any situation.
Yes, it’s a heuristic, but that means it needs to be usually correct. Yours is rarely correct. You make numerous decisions throughout the day, such as how to word your comment. Coming up with 6 alternatives to everything would guarantee that you would Lose.
But if you’re just going to fall back on “but you apply it with your judgment”, then you miss the point of a heuristic, which is to assist with your judgment. Why not have just one universal, all-encompassing heuristic:
Yes, it’s a heuristic, but that means it needs to be usually correct. Yours is rarely correct. You make numerous decisions throughout the day, such as how to word your comment. Coming up with 6 alternatives to everything would guarantee that you would Lose.
But if you’re just going to fall back on “but you apply it with your judgment”, then you miss the point of a heuristic, which is to assist with your judgment. Why not have just one universal, all-encompassing heuristic:
“Use judgment.”