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Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by zapzupnz on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:59PM (#26032552)
People need to remember that perfection is the enemy. Better to step forward in the right direction now than be paralysed by the fear it will never come to pass — obviously, the latter is a self fulfilling prophecy.
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by techsupporter on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:07PM (#26032597)
> People need to remember that perfection is the enemy.

Yeah I'm getting real sick of the stance that if something only fixes 80% of a problem and doesn't perfectly resolve every issue every person might ever encounter, it is a failure and should never be implemented.

If it is not causing more harm, and especially if there is a way to address unforeseen harm that might arise, awesome! Let's give it a go.

Because sending armed officers out to deal with any little thing that happens is demonstrably not working well right now.

Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by tracerbulletx on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:21PM (#26032690)
Yeah, there seems to be a real sense that we are scared to try anything or do anything anymore and an army of people ready to bite off the head of anyone who does.
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by random5634 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:41PM (#26032826)
A lot of interventions have "disparate impact" - we had that locally - so a big outcry. So yeah, "trying things" can be somewhat high risk. I think some police departments are trying to be proactive by reducing overall contacts (ie, don't pull folks over for things like missing plates / bad registrations etc, delay or avoid responding to certain other erratic behavior type calls).
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by eeZah7Ux on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:53AM (#26034985)
It has a name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy and it seems to be surprisingly common among developers.
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by specialist on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:28AM (#26036056)
TIL. Thanks.

I really want this phenomenon explained.

Slippery slope fallacies, concern trolling, whataboutism, pearl clutching, feinting spells, Copenhagen Effect (blame anyone who tries to help for the original problem), Alistair Cockburn's wisdom about organizational change (tldr: people really, really hate change, of any kind, for any reason).

Ad nauseatingum.

It's exhausting.

Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by eeZah7Ux on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:21AM (#26037248)
Can you share any link regarding Copenhagen Effect? Thanks
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by specialist on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:39PM (#26040327)
Re:Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals rep... by throwaway9980 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @10:25PM (#26032731)
I’m starting to feel like this perfect or nothing attitude is a massive amplifier of the problems we’re facing.

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

We’re way out of balance. Lot’s of courage, less wisdom, no serenity.