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>The government is never looking out for your individual interests. It only cares about the average, and you can be the person that dies that's collateral damag
by callalex 3y ago
>The government is never looking out for your individual interests. It only cares about the average, and you can be the person that dies that's collateral damage from an order that still has a good average outcome
This only works up to a point. If everyone stays home and turns on their sprinklers and hoses, the water distribution system quickly fails, and then NOBODY can fight the fire, be it individuals or the average. This is a very simple lesson that was learned more than a century ago. Acting in a selfish manner only works if a tiny fraction of people do that. We typically name these people after a certain excreting orifice for a reason.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoI'm not saying everyone should stay home. I'm explicitly acknowledging that the average policy works for the average person. The people that I know that fought fires are Rural and not even on a distribution system. They saved their home while the firefighters passively watched their neighbors houses burned down. The firefighters orders were to make sure there were no fires by a Road intersection, and since there weren't, this meant standing around doing nothing for 24 hours within shouting distance of houses burning down. A good example of how public priorities don't always match your personal priorities. I get that people hate non-conformists and deviance, but Not everything needs to be an us vs them zero-sum game.