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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It was posted in a comment to my post “in the real world” which I think is also germane here. The idea of “serious” I think overlaps strongly with “in the real world” in some ways.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/05/27/in-the-real-world/ …
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Also: Non-seriousness is serious. It is central to creating the value which makes seriousness in other things worthwhile. Liberal societies are worth defending with cops in part because they make good jokes, music. Dictatorships are less worth defending in part because they don’t
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