We all have jobs to do, and we all face obstacles, limitations, and hurdles...we all face them daily in whatever work we do...
We know that, and yet we occasionally think that the situation is different elsewhere, for other people in other professions...we hold them to a higher standard than they can possibly meet, a standard we, ourselves, couldn't meet...and criticize them openly when they fail...
I am guilty of this myself...I'm working on it...
I have never done any work for an organization that I thought could not be improved...I sincerely doubt that any of us have...but when I think about the reasons things aren't done better without fail I come to the same conclusion:
Humans who want to do a better job are constrained, by reality...resources--manpower, money, will, intellect, time...
Sometimes we humans fail simply because of our human physical limitations...we're tired...we need time off...
I think that it's very true that those we elect (or hire) to enforce laws simply cannot enforce them all... all the time...the resources simply aren't there...
We wish they were, but that doesn't change the reality...
We all have jobs to do, and we all face obstacles, limitations, and hurdles...we all face them daily in whatever work we do...
We know that, and yet we occasionally think that the situation is different elsewhere, for other people in other professions...we hold them to a higher standard than they can possibly meet, a standard we, ourselves, couldn't meet...and criticize them openly when they fail...
I am guilty of this myself...I'm working on it...
I have never done any work for an organization that I thought could not be improved...I sincerely doubt that any of us have...but when I think about the reasons things aren't done better without fail I come to the same conclusion:
Humans who want to do a better job are constrained, by reality...resources--manpower, money, will, intellect, time...
Sometimes we humans fail simply because of our human physical limitations...we're tired...we need time off...
I think that it's very true that those we elect (or hire) to enforce laws simply cannot enforce them all... all the time...the resources simply aren't there...
We wish they were, but that doesn't change the reality...