Atos/WCA documentary's

The map is not the territory.

Or, in other words, just because someone is forced to implement a discompassionate system, that does not imply that they must lack compassion.

And before you say they are not forced to the job - yes they are - or at least they are forced to do a job, to survive, and unfortunately we can not all choose to do the job we'd prefer to do, some have to take the job that is available to them.

For example the trainer in the Dispatches program - she is unable to do the job she trained to do in her home country, because that field is not recognised in this country - and she clearly wished she didn't have to do that job - but she probably has a mortgage, or rent, to pay, and herself, and possibly a husband, and children, to feed.

And she doesn't define the rules - she just trains people to implement the rules as she has been told they must be implemented.

Likewise the assesors (who, by the way, are all medically trained, if not doctors), also don't define the rules, they simplay have to implement the rules as they've been trained to do. And again, they will all have mortgages, or rent, to pay, and mouths too feed, and so on. And if they don't do the job as they've been trained, they will almost certainly lose that job.

Should all these people end up destitute just because the government introduce a system that is discompassionate?

I don't think that would be fair on them any more than the system is fair on us.

The map is not the territory.

Or, in other words, just because someone is forced to implement a discompassionate system, that does not imply that they must lack compassion.

And before you say they are not forced to the job - yes they are - or at least they are forced to do a job, to survive, and unfortunately we can not all choose to do the job we'd prefer to do, some have to take the job that is available to them.

For example the trainer in the Dispatches program - she is unable to do the job she trained to do in her home country, because that field is not recognised in this country - and she clearly wished she didn't have to do that job - but she probably has a mortgage, or rent, to pay, and herself, and possibly a husband, and children, to feed.

And she doesn't define the rules - she just trains people to implement the rules as she has been told they must be implemented.

Likewise the assesors (who, by the way, are all medically trained, if not doctors), also don't define the rules, they simplay have to implement the rules as they've been trained to do. And again, they will all have mortgages, or rent, to pay, and mouths too feed, and so on. And if they don't do the job as they've been trained, they will almost certainly lose that job.

Should all these people end up destitute just because the government introduce a system that is discompassionate?

I don't think that would be fair on them any more than the system is fair on us.