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by zug_zug
1011 days ago
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There's something so emotional and compelling about the spectacle of shared tragedy (even smaller ones like oceangate). However there's always a reminder in the back of my mind that what makes our heart leap is very poorly correlated with what things ought to scare us. I don't know if it's possible to "Reprogram" one's heart to worry less about very high-visibility low risk things (like air travel, or terrorism in the US) and care more about statistically probable ones that SHOULD scare us (heart disease and such), but I wish it were. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU does a great job of giving a sense of what the proportions are of relative tragedies in terms of loss of life. |
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