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"What about" arguments deflect attention without addressing any real issues. The closest you can get to justifying using one is to acknowledge that regulators h
by zbrozek 6y ago
"What about" arguments deflect attention without addressing any real issues. The closest you can get to justifying using one is to acknowledge that regulators have finite bandwidth to deal with issues and that some prioritization is needed.
But the regulators' prioritization metrics may not match your own. I don't always work on the biggest or most difficult of my household chores. Sometimes I work on ones I can complete today or which mitigate my most severe annoyances or which have a deadline for some reason.