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Via Negativa – Omission/Removal/Avoidance of Harm

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In many systems, improvement is at best, or at times only, a result of removing bad elements rather than of adding good elements. This is a credo built into the modern medical profession: First, do no harm. Similarly, if one has a group of children behaving badly, removal of the instigator is often much more effective than any form of punishment meted out to the whole group.

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Shane Parrish's Farnam Street Mental Model Guide