If you are too optimistic about humanity, you just need to read the comments on a controversial tweet. Those will quickly revert you to pessimism about our species.
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead.
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Removing "thoughtful" from that quote probably increases its validity.
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I have no issue with this
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Indeed. Reminds me of a quote of Eddington in an essay (Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics): "Some men went fishing in the sea with a net, and upon examining what they caught they concluded that there was a minimum size to the fish in the sea" https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Hamming.html …
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Availability bias
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I'M UNREASONABLY OUTRAGED?!?! NO, YOU'RE UNREASONABLY OUTRAGED!!!!!!!!
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