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People really need to stop trying to form syllogisms that, completely devoid of context, are supposed to lead to some sort of useful conclusion. The world is f
by deong 11y ago
People really need to stop trying to form syllogisms that, completely devoid of context, are supposed to lead to some sort of useful conclusion.
The world is full of grays, and not everyone's jobs, actions, abilities, and powers are equal.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoIf the context is relevant, it needs to be explicitly denoted. To otherwise expect context to matter when it cannot be made part of the argument is special pleading. Even if it is popular to use special pleading in day to day life does not mean we should accept it as valid.
- deong 11y agoThat's not a reasonable requirement. You simply can't write rules that apply to every aspect of day to day life that may be relevant for situations you may have not even anticipated might happen. You can try, and that's typically what organizational policies aim to do. But once you've set a policy, pretending like it's some sort of infallible divine guidance is asking for failure. Good security policy needs to always be reacting, always considering whether the rules they've set are still a net gain in the security of the system, given that they're operating in a real world of real people with real behaviors that may not have been accurately predicted.