[akvadrako]

I don't understand even the first paragraph in your argument. Are you saying you can't pick some rats which are faster than some other rats?

Yes, it's relative - everything is relative - but what does that have to do with shallow?

If you are looking for rats to win a race, clearly some rats will be much better to use than others.

What you just wrote feels like a rant without a coherent basis.

[swalsh]

Your comment is unnecessarily combative, so i'm not going to further explain myself. The issue with your line of reasoning is that your analogy doesn't hold up. An engineering team building a product is not a rat race.

[akvadrako]

Maybe you are unaware, but the term "rat race" is a colloquial expression that is used to describe the type of situation that many office workers are in:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rat%20race

That isn't what I was talking about but it was an interesting choice of words :)