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azurelunatic) wrote2003-06-24 11:04 am
azurelunatic) wrote2003-06-24 11:04 am
Buildings are a good analogy for lots of things. (from my comment on a locked post)
Say there was a building that needed to be demolished, for whatever reason. How would most people feel about having some raw inexperienced people with no training laying demolition charges? Heavy demolition charges?
It would freak most people the hell out.
(Let me reiterate. No training. This includes, in some cases, only knowing that "Um, C4 is good for blowing stuff up, right?" Now imagine such a person's attempt to use it.)
It is at this point that many people thinking things through would do things among the following:
-Read up on demolitions themselves
-Get opinions from friends/neighbors who know a thing or two about demolitions
-Ask the advice of a professional.
In recruiting the advice of a professional, should a person who knows exactly jack shit about the actual process be advising, "I think you need to put ten sticks of dynamite right there"?
Perhaps they should say, "See? Building. I think it needs to be taken down. How should this be done?"
Maybe it will take C-4. Maybe dynamite is the thing for the job. Maybe it would be overkill for either of those to be used, and the guy with the bulldozer should come in and clear things out and take away the rubble when it's all done. Perhaps there was just that one beam that was failing, and if that were replaced, the structure could be allowed to stand. In a few cases, there are buried fuel tanks that would go off in very uncontrolled and dangerous ways if the thing were just blown up.
No, the analogy can't be stretched too terribly far, but I think buildings are somewhat less hot-button a topic than psychiatry. (I was raised, incidentally, with the idea that all shrinks were as nuts or more so than anyone dumb enough to go to them.)
Also, I know jack shit about demolition, but enough to know that when the person who's the expert is running like hell, you keep up with them.
It would freak most people the hell out.
(Let me reiterate. No training. This includes, in some cases, only knowing that "Um, C4 is good for blowing stuff up, right?" Now imagine such a person's attempt to use it.)
It is at this point that many people thinking things through would do things among the following:
-Read up on demolitions themselves
-Get opinions from friends/neighbors who know a thing or two about demolitions
-Ask the advice of a professional.
In recruiting the advice of a professional, should a person who knows exactly jack shit about the actual process be advising, "I think you need to put ten sticks of dynamite right there"?
Perhaps they should say, "See? Building. I think it needs to be taken down. How should this be done?"
Maybe it will take C-4. Maybe dynamite is the thing for the job. Maybe it would be overkill for either of those to be used, and the guy with the bulldozer should come in and clear things out and take away the rubble when it's all done. Perhaps there was just that one beam that was failing, and if that were replaced, the structure could be allowed to stand. In a few cases, there are buried fuel tanks that would go off in very uncontrolled and dangerous ways if the thing were just blown up.
No, the analogy can't be stretched too terribly far, but I think buildings are somewhat less hot-button a topic than psychiatry. (I was raised, incidentally, with the idea that all shrinks were as nuts or more so than anyone dumb enough to go to them.)
Also, I know jack shit about demolition, but enough to know that when the person who's the expert is running like hell, you keep up with them.