This stood out to me when reading his take as well. I wonder if this has something to do with a security-mindedness spectrum that people are on. Less security-minded people going “Sure, if it happens we’ll do something. (But it will probablynever happen.)” and the more security-minded people going “Let’s try to prevent it from happening. (Because it totallycould happen.)”
I guess it gets hard in cases like these where the stakes either way seem super high to both sides. I think that’s why you get less security-minded people saying things like that, because they also rate the upside very highly, they don’t want to sacrifice any of it if they don’t have to.
Just my take (as a probably overly-security-minded person).
This stood out to me when reading his take as well. I wonder if this has something to do with a security-mindedness spectrum that people are on. Less security-minded people going “Sure, if it happens we’ll do something. (But it will probably never happen.)” and the more security-minded people going “Let’s try to prevent it from happening. (Because it totally could happen.)”
I guess it gets hard in cases like these where the stakes either way seem super high to both sides. I think that’s why you get less security-minded people saying things like that, because they also rate the upside very highly, they don’t want to sacrifice any of it if they don’t have to.
Just my take (as a probably overly-security-minded person).