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Originally Posted by Ustwo
Replace paranoia with procedure and you nailed it.
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Procedure is guise for paranoia in this case. Paranoid administrators are afraid to allow reason into the process, and those who are hired to implement the procedure are given no room for discretion, good judgment, or common sense. Thus when a rule is stupid or paranoid, the victim cannot fight it and the one who has to impose it on the victim has no discretion to do anything either.
So yes, it is paranoia--paranoia implemented in and enabled by procedure.