4 ms·
IMHO, depersonalizing a problem may help to mitigate it. My IRL analogy: Working in election integrity, I emphatically encouraged my peers to pointedly ignore
by specialist 6y ago
IMHO, depersonalizing a problem may help to mitigate it.
My IRL analogy:
Working in election integrity, I emphatically encouraged my peers to pointedly ignore intention, to frame problems as "errors", not "fraud".
From the systems view, all fraud are technically errors.
And the conversation is full stop over the moment someone says "fraud", "chicanery", "electioneering".
But if you can keep the convo in the "safe space" of "errors", avoid partisanship and blame and whatever, then it's easier to build coalitions, persuade others, neutralize opposition.
Just my two cents.
- bumby 6y agoI think that’s a good way to phrase it. Another is to focus on the “process” rather than the “person”. An election process can fail to provide validation against errors. A person, however, commits fraud.
- specialist 6y agoYa, process vs people is a smarter dichotomy. More general purpose. Thank you.