On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
to the end. Rather than saying "I am invoking IAR and I did this because
X",
just say "I did this because X."
Disagree. The response to "I did this because X" is, "But there's rule Y, which you should have followed." Explicitly evoking IAR makes it clear that you know about Y, and have a reason for ignoring it.
It would be context-dependent, but it would not be an response to say "You should have followed rule Y" without a reason to follow the rule. The fact that the policy implies that it is a rule is not in itself any reason to follow it.
- causa sui