There’s a beautiful logical paradox, a line-drawing fallacy: it’s difficult to tell when quantity transforms into quality. Which of the cuts killed an elephant?.. Which of the thousand-dollar checks made a company go bankrupt?.. It’s so difficult to tell when an incremental, continuous process turns the corner and radically changes its character, and a temptation – a very pragmatic temptation – is to allow for wiggle room and ignore the little deviations.
Line-Drawing Fallacy and Accountability
Line-Drawing Fallacy and Accountability
Line-Drawing Fallacy and Accountability
There’s a beautiful logical paradox, a line-drawing fallacy: it’s difficult to tell when quantity transforms into quality. Which of the cuts killed an elephant?.. Which of the thousand-dollar checks made a company go bankrupt?.. It’s so difficult to tell when an incremental, continuous process turns the corner and radically changes its character, and a temptation – a very pragmatic temptation – is to allow for wiggle room and ignore the little deviations.