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The harm of kitchen knives, fire, electricity, thinking, and getting out of bed all clearly exceed 0. This suggests to me that it's fundamentally wrongheaded to
by AbrahamParangi 3y ago
The harm of kitchen knives, fire, electricity, thinking, and getting out of bed all clearly exceed 0. This suggests to me that it's fundamentally wrongheaded to think of it as the primary metric by which we evaluate things.
- ceejayoz 3y agoIt’s part of the right metric. Harm versus benefit. Often hard to determine the right values for each.
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y agoThere’s nothing fundamentally wrong about it. This is unnecessarily strong language in absence of an actual point. GP addressed your exact point: these things are seen as worth doing, to the point where it isn’t routinely questioned.
- AbrahamParangi 3y agoMy point is that literally everything falls into this category of “potentially dangerous under conditions of misuse” and so it is not a useful distinction.