I think you’re talking about is a slightly narrower concept: altruistic seriousness about things that are important AND urgent. Everybody is serious about at least a few non-urgent selfish concerns. In the case of children/elderly possibly “unimportant” as well.
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Yes. This is one of the clear conclusions from Sarah Perry’s book on suicide and stuff she’s written since. Life isn’t intrinsically worthwhile and valuable enough to defend at arbitrary cost. It has to be made worth defending at any given level.
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A lot of “irrational” non-serious behaviors are actually rational signals of low life preference in a world where the cost of suicide is maintained at artificially high levels to benefit the high life-preference subset.
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