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Why were you skeptical of it?
by llamaimperative 2y ago
Why were you skeptical of it?
- saghm 2y agoPeople seem to be willing to go out of their way to rationalize around having to take threats beyond a certain magnitude seriously. I think something similar seems to be happening with all of the discussion around Greenland (and Canada, for that matter); the idea of us actually getting into a serious territorial dispute with Denmark or Canada would be such a divergence from what anyone is familiar with that it's easier to just discount it as not being a realistic concern.
- potato3732842 2y agoSure, on one hand there's normalcy bias. But on the other hand screeching about every little thing is just as stupid. At the end of the day you can't use brain dead rules of thumb to alleviate the need to actually think things though. You actually need to consider the political and economic realities the various moves that various parties might make.
- llamaimperative 2y agoAll big things are actually just series of little things. This is unfortunately a fact that’s easily obscured by the “clarity” of retrospection, through which big things look like obviously big things.