I wonder if situations like the Cuban missile crisis are good examples for your position. But then I also wonder if that (I think apparently worried but calm about the world ending in a nuclear conflict) isn’t contrasted by the claims about the mass hysteria after the radio broadcast of Well’s War of the Worlds.
Apparently (edit: that particular case of) mass hysteria is a myth. But however many people got confused, I don’t think this is a contradiction. If I updated P(aliens are invading) from 0% to 1%, it would change my plans for the evening, because I am sane.
I wonder if situations like the Cuban missile crisis are good examples for your position. But then I also wonder if that (I think apparently worried but calm about the world ending in a nuclear conflict) isn’t contrasted by the claims about the mass hysteria after the radio broadcast of Well’s War of the Worlds.
Apparently (edit: that particular case of) mass hysteria is a myth. But however many people got confused, I don’t think this is a contradiction. If I updated P(aliens are invading) from 0% to 1%, it would change my plans for the evening, because I am sane.
that particular case of mass hysteria is a myth