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One sizable group wants them to do X, until Y happens, then gets bent out of shape that they weren't doing Z. One sizable group wants them to do Z, until Y happens, then gets bent out of shape that they weren't doing X. And so on, and etc, because people are just emoting and parroting their script. What is the problem that one wants to solve? What are the guiding principles determining that it is a problem, that it needs a solution, and which are used to evaluate the potential solutions? That? That's too much work, and it's hard. So we fall into primate screeching because we haven't, actually, bothered to think.