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I still don't understand why someone would conflate whether something is frequently used with whether it is useful.

Ask yourself: How often do you use the emergency number, how small is the percentage of the population that does in a day? Or even in a life? In the light of this, would you want it discontinued?



Right but that’s a matter of life or death. Let’s have some perspective. Another comparison is perhaps a small back road that no one ever drives down. How many years do you keep maintaining it before you close it off?


The point of the example is that there are things that are useful even if they are not frequently used. You simply cannot equate use with usefulness.


Wouldn't you have to ask where exactly the back road leads to?




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