Sunday, December 01, 2019
Hard to find analogies
Catch and release is a peculiar tactic when you think about it.
The courts and the cops are two parts of the same system. They derive their funding from the same tax revenue, and nominally respond to the same legislature.
The courts INTENTIONALLY release criminals who LEGALLY should be kept in jail, and the cops then have to RISK THEIR LIVES 80% of the time to repeatedly arrest the same few professional criminals who will then be released in an hour to create more havoc.
I can't think of any other system that dysfunctions this way.
Try some examples:
1. Chevy repairmen have to spend 80% of their time sending the same few engines back to the GM factory, which then returns the engines immediately, untouched, with a "fully rebuilt" tag.
2. Hairstylists have to spend 80% of their time on the same three women, who report to the Hairstylists Union immediately to have their hair misstyled by the Hairstylists Union so the regular stylists can redo the same cut.
3. Programmers have to spend 80% of their time debugging the same program over and over, because the beta testers working for the same company undo each bugfix immediately after they receive it for testing.
These examples are bizarre nonsense.
In each job there are real repeat offenders: Unfixable engines, stubbornly unbeautifiable women, bugs that pop up over and over. But the real repeats are NOT created by saboteurs within the same company. In these normal situations the parts of one company cooperate to solve or eliminate the problem. Melt down the unfixable engines, politely dissuade the unstylable women, discard the bad programs and start over with fresh code.
Labels: #bluelivesmatter, Asked and unanswerable
¶ 7:27 AM
