Saturday, April 09, 2005
The Question is
I sat in a witch-hunt recently; it wasn't couched as a witch hunt, but that's what it boiled down to. It's funny how in this country the phrase "I'm not trying to..." automatically means yes, I really, really am.
As I listened to the talk - couched as a benign talk avoiding the question of "who was at fault" by instead focusing on the question "What was not done", I couldn't help but notice yet again that people here don't know to ask the right questions.
The question in this instance should have been "How can the system be changed to prevent this happening again - what foolproof failsafes can we devise?" - and the answer did not lie in fault-finding, but refining and streamlining.
Again, reading one of my reader's comments I noted the same. The question which was not being asked - was being answered assumptively. He provided the wrong question, (ie is reminisce a twat, yes, and so he must be insinutating this), he provided the wrong answer (which was not what an ordinary person would read from the context) and then he judged (poorly, that italics somehow connote exclusivity) - simply because the entire process of question / answer had been crafted around a predetermined judgement, and not a genuine intent to answer a heartfelt question.
Well, that's how it looked anyhow.
In a debate the rebuttal would have been swift, sharp and simple. Thank you for gracing us all with your self-indulgent little foam-at-the-mouth rant on the matter, now, back to the salient issues...
It's been a long time since anyone's thought to ask me the right questions.
As I listened to the talk - couched as a benign talk avoiding the question of "who was at fault" by instead focusing on the question "What was not done", I couldn't help but notice yet again that people here don't know to ask the right questions.
The question in this instance should have been "How can the system be changed to prevent this happening again - what foolproof failsafes can we devise?" - and the answer did not lie in fault-finding, but refining and streamlining.
Again, reading one of my reader's comments I noted the same. The question which was not being asked - was being answered assumptively. He provided the wrong question, (ie is reminisce a twat, yes, and so he must be insinutating this), he provided the wrong answer (which was not what an ordinary person would read from the context) and then he judged (poorly, that italics somehow connote exclusivity) - simply because the entire process of question / answer had been crafted around a predetermined judgement, and not a genuine intent to answer a heartfelt question.
Well, that's how it looked anyhow.
In a debate the rebuttal would have been swift, sharp and simple. Thank you for gracing us all with your self-indulgent little foam-at-the-mouth rant on the matter, now, back to the salient issues...
It's been a long time since anyone's thought to ask me the right questions.
