The Naloxone debate makes me think: there is meta-moral hazard of some sort to entertaining policy proposals founded on an assumption of irredeemable corruption/worst self in a broad population. Good policies leave optionality for best selves to emerge even if probability is low.
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on what... assumption of irredeemable corruption or hope of salvation? though I thought it was really about nixon making up an excuse to take out blacks and hippies so I never bothered to check the official ideological argument behind it
