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I suspect your sentiment generalizes very well. Most problems of all kinds have mundane contributing factors that nobody thought were important at the time. “I
by jl6 5y ago
I suspect your sentiment generalizes very well. Most problems of all kinds have mundane contributing factors that nobody thought were important at the time.
“I’ll patch that server next week”
“One more donut won’t make a difference”
“I’ll skip this valve check today; it’s been fine every day for years”
“A few extra miles in the car can’t pollute that much”
- dvdkhlng 5y agoI think what you're trying to define by example may just be Normalization of Deviance [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance