Dealing with some "privileged information" (Positive Collusion) matter at work, I was reminded of some illogical behaviors I've seen in church. One in particular, a debate with a Chinese church member on privacy/security in digital information.
I won't ever deal much with the secular community, but I can and will heavily blow up the folly within the church.
Mr. J, I'll call him. Wanted a system so secure that it's impenetrable by intruder.
So I told J, I believe the level of security can be boundless. However, the more secure it is, the harder/inconvenient it is for the users. Or vice versa. There's no logical way to have both a high security while making it very convenient for the users. The goal is to seek a balance between the two to achieve an optimal solution.
However, Mr. J doesn't seem to understand. It's as if he's lost to this logic. Like a broken radio, this supposedly IT expert Vice President of Goldman Sachs kept going with desiring a high security system while getting stuck and speechless when it comes to the obstacles the users will be facing.
You either trust someone or you don't. There's no both trust and don't trust. You can set a level of trust. But you cannot fully trust and then fully distrust at the same time.
From time to time, I wondered what's wrong with these people's IQ. It's quite a mystery to me. I think it has to do with the way they grew up. What kind of friends, people they dealt with. Whether they've been caught doing something hush hush, or they've been betrayed by people they trusted. Then, they'll have to be stubborn enough to not change to be the better, but rather, they would blame it on others, blame it on the ideology of "TRUST", and have a philosophical seizure.
I think I've seen it. And punished it. But I don't want to keep doing this. A pastor apparently trusted me enough to even want to make me the successor as a pastor of her church. I despised her theology in the very beginning, but I tried to teach her indirectly. She didn't get it but just simply admire my indirect "teaching" (low IQ?). If it's low IQ, in this case, then it's a sin. Ignorance is sinful here. Not judging herself is sinful. She only see the faults in others, she couldn't see the plank in herself when I was making my indirect lessons for her. So she'll never learn. I dealt with her very fairly, which is why the trust, I supposed. But in the end, when I have to call what's sinful as sinful, that's when she would have to feel betrayed, I supposed. She's lost. Her illogical mentality caused her to look for unhealthy way out. Her sinfulness begs for a way to blame on others, anyone but herself. I wouldn't be surprised if she blames it on TRUST.
Hence, people like these, can't work well with others. That's the important conclusion I get. They are broken.
How to work with them? I don't know. Don't but too much expectation on them, for they have restricted themselves to be better.