On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
The point of I'm trying to make in this discussion is, we
do a lot more good by focusing on what's working, and then expanding on
that, than we do by getting all accusatory about the things that are *not* working.
Think of a surgeon who's done thousands of successful routine operations. But every once in a while, he does a gastric bypass, and those patients more often than not end up harmed.
It isn't appropriate in such a case to "focus on what's working".
(And such accusations often seem to be accompanied by an unjustified assumption that the bad somehow outweighs the good.)
The question isn't whether the bad outweighs the good.