Yup, there’s ginormous status quo bias going on here. If we lived in a world stretched to the limit for resources, where policy is impossible because everyone is a bigoted moral fossil and the few sane leaders left have no clue what they’re doing because it’s all so new, and you proposed “Hey, I know! Let’s kill everyone over 80!”… everyone would just stare and ask “Have you been reading Pebble in the sky again?”.
Yup, there’s ginormous status quo bias going on here. If we lived in a world stretched to the limit for resources, where policy is impossible because everyone is a bigoted moral fossil and the few sane leaders left have no clue what they’re doing because it’s all so new, and you proposed “Hey, I know! Let’s kill everyone over 80!”… everyone would just stare and ask “Have you been reading Pebble in the sky again?”.