Listening tonight, to Temple Grandin’s audio book on using the mysteries of autism to translate animal behavior, I was struck by her explanation of why zero tolerance in the meat packing industry doesn’t work. It’s the same reason, really, that it doesn’t work anywhere we apply it – from schools to courts to employers and employees to government:  it is not designed to work. Quite simply, zero tolerance is designed to fail. Oh, perhaps not intentionally, but fail it will, and every time.  Why?  Because it is the direct application of what Grandin would call abstracted thought to real life situations.  It is, indeed, the result of a non –…