Geoffrey MillerVerified account

In my twitter polls a surprisingly large amount of people vote for 'small concrete good' as opposed to 'large abstract good' - for example, more people voted to 'save the life of a child' than 'prevent gender roles from reverting to the 1950s'

Even though 1950's gender roles would probably end or fuck up countless more childrens' lives (no abortion, anti-divorce pressure prevents a wife from leaving an abusive husband, etc.)

This is exemplary of a really worrying tendency overall - people look at a problem and think "We should fix that," without thinking about the large-scale, long-term impacts of the solution, or considering why the problem arose in the first place