Question stolen from Twitter:
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
Literally everyone should press the red button. There should be ad campaigns about how much the red button ought to be the one you press. Pamphlets. Planes in the sky should write messages. Because every red button is a choice to live.
"My people would press the blue button because it makes us better people!" Great, but your community is in the minority and will not win the vote.
The only reason to press the blue button is you think someone else is stupid enough to press the blue button and you want to try to protect them from themselves, but then you become one of them. God sent you a speedboat, a helicopter, and a ship and you chose to drown.
@sj_zero
A society can only work in a world, where half of people are willing to press the blue button, knowing that they can rely on others pressing it too.
@monsterislandcolonizer @sj_zero
YES!
In safe society, a kid can play outside unsurpervised, since you know others will be willing to sacrefice themselves to help if anything happened to them.
In an unsafe society where everyone saves themselves, a kid cannot go outside alone.
That is the difference. (BTW, I had no idea just how bad of a place America was, until I learned, that "just walking outside" is considered suspicious)
Also, there are many "unsafe" societies where children still go outside alone so "can kids play outside unsupervised" isn't a useful metric.