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| tom66:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on June 23, 2022, 06:11:28 am ---True, but people only started really worrying about safety and making laws, as society became a much safer due to technological developments. It seems to be the safer we are, the more we worry about safety and fear danger. We're getting to the point of diminishing returns, where it's doing more harm than good in many cases. --- End quote --- I think this is true in a lot of cases, but it is not universally true. The problem is humans are really bad at estimating risks where the consequences are very high but the probability very low. We overcompensate for these - assuming that the event is extremely bad without considering the likelihood. An example is the money spent on the military or on anti-terrorism measures, versus the money spent on healthcare and prevention of early morbidity. |
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