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One could add: The Barking Dog Barks at everything all the time, people learn to ignore it. Then, when there's real danger, no one cares, providing literally
by moralestapia 5y ago
One could add:
The Barking Dog
Barks at everything all the time, people learn to ignore it. Then, when there's real danger, no one cares, providing literally no value and becoming only an annoyance.
It's kind of like a dual for the security guard one.
- myfavoritedog 5y agoThat's only true if the burglar knows that the owners ignore the dog's barking.
- kuratkull 5y agoI think the best known illustration for this concept is actually called "The boy who cried wolf"
- moralestapia 5y agoYes, but one important difference is that on OP's examples there is some sort of system that you put in place for a specific purpose, and it fails to do so in practice. It would be akin to that lying boy being the officially appointed wolf-spotter for his village.