Yeah and arguably, many survived to see the light on the other side of the tunnel. It's completely legitimate in the same way as this argument is: "since there

Yeah and arguably, many survived to see the light on the other side of the tunnel. It's completely legitimate in the same way as this argument is: "since there's a risk of me being hit by a car, or having an unpleasant day when I go outside, I better stay inside." Overly focusing on the negative outcome to the point of inaction is often a thinly veiled excuse for some other often internal/personal reasons. Doomerism doesn't have legitimacy because it's just a decaying idea. If ideas had an evolutionary tree, it is a recurring branch(leaf) that always died off while legitimately calling itself legitimate, every single time.