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How to affect effectively undesirable effects?
Author(s) -
Navon David
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830370303
Subject(s) - normative , affect (linguistics) , mythology , risk analysis (engineering) , root cause , root (linguistics) , context (archaeology) , normative model of decision making , computer science , management science , epistemology , psychology , economics , business , operations management , philosophy , linguistics , history , archaeology , theology , communication
This paper presents an attempt to formulate universal, context‐free normative rules for selecting remedies for undesirable events like diseases, malfunctions, conflicts etc. A formal model meant to compare remedies in view of a number of properties of the effect, the causes, and the remedies, is developed. Several conclusions that do not depend on assessments of costs and probabilities are derived. Two of them are incompatible with two myths of everyday thinking: (a) that preventing is better than curing, (b) that it is best to strike at the root of an evil.