Oh, certainly.
My point was not that it’s a stupid policy; just that it’s a policy that dramatically saps the human tendency to do things that are, if rational at all, only rational with reference to various deeply emotional and/or normative commitments.
This doesn’t make it a bad thing(indeed, if you could distill it into a sprayable form for application to the world’s various futile meatgrinder conflicts over salvation goods, wildly contrafactual mythic histories, and chunks of dirt barely worth standing on; they could just abolish the selection committee and make you Nobel Peace laureate in perpetuity); just a notable one; in that it’s about as far from cultivating a desire to get all ashes-and-temples on the situation as one could reasonably imagine.
“It’s a bunch of fungible junk that wouldn’t be worth the trouble even if it weren’t owned by the faceless monolith that doesn’t pay you enough to deal with this, and probably protected by inscrutable financial arrangements; also your situational mastery is so low, and agency so limited, that any deviation from passivity will be of negative expected value that we won’t hesitate to discard you for.” really doesn’t leave much room for improvement as a disincentive toward being a big damn hero, or trying.
(To put the matter into sharpest relief, compare and contrast with the messaging used by assorted military and paramilitary entities; which also have a large body of entry-level staff who aren’t paid nearly enough for this; but absolutely depend on instilling(or nourishing where already present) the exact opposite set of convictions.)
