Human beings are error prone. Fixing errors is much easier if you do not consider error makers allied with the Devil. How about they have failed to make a proper root cause analysis of the source of the error?
If we ran our factories on the basis of “the Devil caused the parts to be out of tolerance” we would never get high quality manufactured goods.
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Gagggh. Anyway, everybody knows bad production is caused by wreckers and hoarders.
I had to work with an idiot from the production department who could cause any number of failures in products we made. He would never admit being wrong, and if you forced him to see how his new brilliant idea ruined a production run it was always someone else’s fault.
Like the time he adjusted the machine that shaved off the component leads after wave solder so close to the board that he was cutting into the copper, and I could pull components off the board by hand because there wasn’t enough solder left to hold them in place. According to him this is the right way to do it. Wouldn’t admit he was wrong even after I pulled some electrolytics right out of the board by hand right in front of him. This was on my product design. Every time something he did caused failures it reflected on me, of course it wasn’t HIS fault, EVER.
Try training this into some Middle Eastern Muslims. They see no need to perform preventive maintenance on vehicles, or even properly aim their rifles. If Allah wills it, the truck will run and the bullets will hit their targets.
The source of the error is DNA. Christians call it “original sin.” Whatever. The fact is that humans are animals. We’re individualistic and competitive by nature. That’s how we spread our DNA. Other species are collective by nature: ants, bees, etc. The old communists thought that traits were heritable hence the pseudo-scientific Lysenkoism. There were going to build the New Soviet Man, the guy who would work just as hard for the state as for his own family. That didn’t end well.
I’m with the Christians: Men are by nature animals. Capitalism + the rule of law guides that competitive nature towards a productive and civil society. The proof is plain to see.
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card is a good story about mankind fighting an advanced collective species.
Ack. How can you read those sites without losing your appetite for a week or two?