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"Everyone will be reasonable" tacitly implies "all of the time", which is unreasonably optimistic. Resilient systems should anticipate failure.
by chrismatic 5y ago
"Everyone will be reasonable" tacitly implies "all of the time", which is unreasonably optimistic.
Resilient systems should anticipate failure.
- TeMPOraL 5y ago> Resilient systems should anticipate failure. And so they do. The implication isn't that everyone will be reasonable all of the time - it's that at any point in time, someone will be reasonable. When one party becomes unreasonable, the other party may still stay reasonable. If they both can't, it's likely there's a currently-reasonable third party nearby. Etc. Works well enough in meatspace.
- yobbo 5y ago> Works well enough in meatspace How do we know? How do we know if it's reasonable for someone to complain, or reasonable to reject the complaints? There is no single agreed definition of "reasonable" so it can't be detected or separated from "unreasonable". In all, "just be reasonable" is equivalent to "our judgement and rank supersedes yours, therefore your complaints will be ignored." This doesn't necessarily mean the weaker side has a valid argument, there is just no unbiased objective way to know.