Anticonservatism, if well-posed, would lead to policies that lead to big gains where progressive hopes turn out to be well-founded, but only small losses (that remain addressable by other policies) where conservative fears turn out to be well-founded.
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I’m going to call this anticonservatism.
Conservatism: assume all humans are irredeemably corrupt
Progressivism: assume all humans have at least a small chance of evolving into their best selves
Anticonservatism: Better that many guilty go free than one innocent be hanged twitter.com/vgr/status/972
