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Isn’t this one of those moral hazards? i.e. Encouraging everyone to protect themselves inadvertently slows down the fixing of the root problem?

• JohnFen 3y ago
  I don't see how the two things are remotely mutually exclusive. I think to tell people they should remain at risk while a larger solution is developed sounds extremely unwise and a bit unfair.
  • noizejoy 3y ago
    Agreed: Conceptually not mutually exclusive, but in practice, it would seem that problems only get fixed when they get pretty bad (squeaky wheels syndrome). I’m personally very torn on this subject. In smaller circles where I have relationships, it’s easy: publish and recommend the workaround protection. But in humanity at large I’d really like the underlying problem to get fixed rather sooner than later?
    • JohnFen 3y ago
      I hear what you're saying. Personally, I don't feel that I have any right to tell others that they need to put themselves at risk in order to make the conditions right for accelerated change. But I do agree that simply engaging in self-protection without also doing what you can to actually change the situation is ethically dubious.