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Of course, there are some other, unspoken prerequisites to this sort of perfect harmony of flower children prancing through the meadow.

  - pre-selection of qualified individuals
  - dictatorial authority precluding much superfluous decision making
  - martial and capital punishment casting a long shadow
  - high stakes besides all of this
  - weeding out according to fitness long before harmony is reached, where the weak are pruned mercilessly
What about:

  - shitty HR negotiations
  - lies during interviews, that can neither be proven nor disproved
  - grooming habits
  - sexual tension
  - and the rest of all of our human foibles



The dismissive exaggeration with which this comment describes the topic seems to indicate a hostile disdain that I find confusing, all the more for how common it seems to be.

I can't quite get my mind to really understand why some viewpoints respond with aggression to ideas like what the article calls psychological safety.

I think it might have to do with how it's the aggression itself that were being called on to remove.




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