Yeah. In an emergency situation, I'm willing to, for the time being, trust the man or woman wearing the firefighter outfit. Just because they have ethos in that situation. If the person wearing the firefighting outfit says, "Go down the ladder outside this window instead of going out the door," I'm willing to respect that, rather than having him or her explain to me the process by which he or she came to the conclusion that the hallway is on fire.
And I trust my doctors. But, again, that's partially because they're the sorts of people who are quite willing to talk about what it is they're doing and why, and the reasons they think it might work, and where they're just guessing -- and when they say things like, "There are two ways we could reasonably proceede from here, and both are reasonably safe and the data support either course, but my gut says that we should do this one, even though I can't REALLY put my finger on why," I'm willing to respect that instinct -- and that's PURE ethos.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2007-08-26 04:30 am (UTC)And I trust my doctors. But, again, that's partially because they're the sorts of people who are quite willing to talk about what it is they're doing and why, and the reasons they think it might work, and where they're just guessing -- and when they say things like, "There are two ways we could reasonably proceede from here, and both are reasonably safe and the data support either course, but my gut says that we should do this one, even though I can't REALLY put my finger on why," I'm willing to respect that instinct -- and that's PURE ethos.