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“I don't understand why it matters to you what the exact number of people added without permission is?”
Hummingbird001,
Part of analyzing a problem is having an idea of its extent.
Accordingly, when I engaged this discussion and was met with a poster who asserted a particular extent I asked where they got that information from in order to examine that piece of evidence. It ended up that particular assertion was unfounded. That is to say, the attributed source later clarified the particular assertion was not what they actually said, which is fine.
- This does not mean something bad didn’t happen.
- This does not mean corrective action is unnecessary.
- It only means that single assertion is unproven.
The reason extent of a problem is important to know is because extent usually plays a role in how to resolve whatever has happened, and in some cases it speaks to competency and/or intent.
In the world of medicine, patients usually don't want to die and death from disease is always a bad thing best avoided. But how medical professionals react to a few deaths due to a particular disease is much different than how they react to hundreds of deaths due to the same disease. In the end there is finite resources attempting to resolve things as best they can, hence extent of the problem is a critical assessment. None of this is to minimize the pain and suffering of even a single death. It's only a means to better understand what's happening and why in order to achieve a level of efficacy.
In this case a primary goal of mine was to determine my reaction to the question of collaborate or not with AAWA leadership. How I resolve this question in my case is something only I can decided and I want to make that decision deliberatively.
Knowing an “exact number” is unimportant to me. Having an idea of “extent” is important to my deliberation.
Marvin Shilmer
