Consent isn't necessarily the issue in drowning individuals, since the instinctive drowning response can make it dangerous to save them even if they're not abou

Consent isn't necessarily the issue in drowning individuals, since the instinctive drowning response can make it dangerous to save them even if they're not about to tell you 'let me drown'. Maybe actually a good comparison for software teams that refuse to make incremental improvements out of fear or panic... it's not that they don't want things to be better or refusing help, necessarily - they're just terrified of the consequences if the improvements go wrong.