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Can you imagine some situations where this strategy would have positive value?

• t-3 4y ago
  It's just an effort to enforce social conformity. A specific case of this type of browbeating may not be helpful, but on the whole it's often positive for the group to be mostly uniform. It's also often negative! More a value-neutral standard human tribal grouping behavior than anything.
• bogeholm 4y ago
  With regards to the negative interpretation having positive value, yes - working in a company that values ‘not failing in particular cases’ higher than ‘working in general, room for improvement’. For example in a conservative corporation where a given project requires a ‘go’ from several departments were the success of the project does not give an immediate advantage to those departments, but a failure will require them to explain why they didn’t ‘catch it in review’. Not an example to follow, but pretty common IME.