sometimes, line employees can see a policy-caused disaster brewing right in front of their faces. And they can prevent it by violating policy. And they should! It’s good to do that!
I really like this. Agreed.
Slack is good, and ideally we would have plenty for everyone, but Moloch is not a fan.
I feel like your pov includes a tacit assumption that if there are problems, somewhere there is somebody who, if they had better competence or moral character, could have prevented things from being so bad. I am a fan of Tsuyoku naritai, and I think it applies to ethics as well… I want to be stronger, more skilled and more kind. I want others to want this too. But I also want to acknowledge that, when honestly looking for blame, sometimes it may rest fully in someones character, but sometimes (and I suspect many or most times) the fault exists in systems and our failures of forethought and failures to understand the complexities of large multi state systems and the difficult ambiguity in communication. It is also reasonable to assume both can be at fault.
Something that may be driving me to care about this issue… it seems much of the world today is out for blood. Suffering and looking to identify and kill the hated outgroup. Maybe we have too much population and our productivity can’t keep up. Maybe some people need to die. But that is awful, and I would rather we sought our sacrifices with sorrow and compassion than the undeserving bitter hatred that I see.
I believe we very well could be in a world where every single human is good, but bad things still happen anyway.
I really like this. Agreed.
Slack is good, and ideally we would have plenty for everyone, but Moloch is not a fan.
I feel like your pov includes a tacit assumption that if there are problems, somewhere there is somebody who, if they had better competence or moral character, could have prevented things from being so bad. I am a fan of Tsuyoku naritai, and I think it applies to ethics as well… I want to be stronger, more skilled and more kind. I want others to want this too. But I also want to acknowledge that, when honestly looking for blame, sometimes it may rest fully in someones character, but sometimes (and I suspect many or most times) the fault exists in systems and our failures of forethought and failures to understand the complexities of large multi state systems and the difficult ambiguity in communication. It is also reasonable to assume both can be at fault.
Something that may be driving me to care about this issue… it seems much of the world today is out for blood. Suffering and looking to identify and kill the hated outgroup. Maybe we have too much population and our productivity can’t keep up. Maybe some people need to die. But that is awful, and I would rather we sought our sacrifices with sorrow and compassion than the undeserving bitter hatred that I see.
I believe we very well could be in a world where every single human is good, but bad things still happen anyway.