[pfdietz]

Some of us are getting tired of the obviously irrational response to these developments. There is so much argument that boils down to "this would be very bad for me, therefore it can't happen". Cope is a good word for that sort of negative wishful thinking.

Mathematicians are not going to be well-served by cowardice-based thinking on the situation confronting them.

[c2c2c]

> There is so much argument that boils down to "this would be very bad for me, therefore it can't happen".

I would gently suggest that you may be assigning the most uncharitable interpretation to people's honest attempts at having an intellectual discussion around these topics.