Feels like I’m missing an important angle on virus. Sense of a major blindspot. Hmm. Public health, economy, institutional response, secular behavior shifts... what angle are we missing? Working out extra degrees of impact on above angles doesn’t seem to illuminate blindspot.
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@JonHaidt I'd be looking at how plagues predict shifts in moral foundations, to emphasize the disgust dimension and strengthen conservative biases. Confirmation/selection biases also emerge, e.g. "my aunt drank forsythia and lived, my uncle didn't and died".1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes -
Also, there is an interesting fatalistic/nihilistic element of "this is an Act of God, no point trying to fight it" which may emerge from a fundamentally depressive life position – I suspect many people are actually okay with large numbers of people dying, including themselves.
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@QiaochuYuan and@visakanv might be able to shed any light on that particular attitude – people who are defeated, in some sense.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Meng Weng Wong Retweeted Lesko
Every society has to grapple with the question; people aren’t monsters for asking it, nor for answering it. Our ancestors were nomadic, and sometimes left their elders behind. https://twitter.com/lastcalllesko/status/1235818400661692416?s=21 …https://twitter.com/lastcalllesko/status/1235818400661692416 …
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I’m all for it. See also Asimov’s pebble in the sky. Team euthanasia all the way here.
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One economic outcome could actually be a spring-back effect after a generation of wills get probated early
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