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> Feels like maybe a case of the "trolley problem". I think that's it exactly. It seems some (many? most?) people believe that the consequences of actions dese
by handrous 5y ago
> Feels like maybe a case of the "trolley problem".
I think that's it exactly. It seems some (many? most?) people believe that the consequences of actions deserve more scrutiny and a higher threshold to act, than inaction and the threshold to refrain from action. Lots of people—almost instinctively, at least for some of them—think acting to kill one to save five is worse than letting the five die through your inaction.
You have to go get the vaccine. You choose to get it. Getting COVID-19 is just something that'll happen to you, eventually. You don't choose to go get it.
Whether it makes sense or not, I think that really is the difference.