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Even cold water was bad enough. The fun fact is not to say "monkeys are dumb" It's to compare our ways to mere monkeys, who can't even communicate
by gcb 15y ago
Even cold water was bad enough.
The fun fact is not to say "monkeys are dumb"
It's to compare our ways to mere monkeys, who can't even communicate
- zizee 15y agoThe point of the story is a metaphor for how burocratic process can establish itself for good reasons, but if followed blindly, the process may continue beyond its usefulness. The point I was trying to make (poorly) is not that it is fun to torture monkeys, but instead that it can also be dangerous to stop following an established process if you don't know the reason for its existence. The lesson here is that it is important to record the reasons for establishing a process, as once it is established, people move on. If no-one knows why the process exists, they might be stuck with it lest they get badly burnt.