we must adapt ourselves to live here, not somewhere else.
I try to explain this when I get called a racist for not wanting to go to a poor/predominantly black and latino neighborhood. I have a high preference for a world in which race doesn’t make a bit of difference. However today, in this world I am 2 orders of magnitude more likely to have a crime perpetrated against me in said neighborhood.
I also bring this up when people respond to my ideas with unlikely sinking ship/rescue raft ethical scenarios. There are enough regular problems that need solving. As the world becomes more gentle we can start putting more effort into the edge cases.
And again with global warming. I’d love to live in a world in which a .3% change in radiation absorption was our most pressing concern. However in this world we could save many more lives and species by refocusing our money and efforts.
in this world I am 2 orders of magnitude more likely to have a crime perpetrated against me in said neighborhood.
Presumably, then, your actual objection is to living in predominantly high-crime neighborhoods, and you’d be fine with poor/black/hispanic neighborhoods? I’d certainly suspect racism if the objection was “but poor = crime!” rather than “looking at the actual statistics, that neighborhood has high crime”.
we must adapt ourselves to live here, not somewhere else.
I try to explain this when I get called a racist for not wanting to go to a poor/predominantly black and latino neighborhood. I have a high preference for a world in which race doesn’t make a bit of difference. However today, in this world I am 2 orders of magnitude more likely to have a crime perpetrated against me in said neighborhood.
I also bring this up when people respond to my ideas with unlikely sinking ship/rescue raft ethical scenarios. There are enough regular problems that need solving. As the world becomes more gentle we can start putting more effort into the edge cases.
And again with global warming. I’d love to live in a world in which a .3% change in radiation absorption was our most pressing concern. However in this world we could save many more lives and species by refocusing our money and efforts.
Presumably, then, your actual objection is to living in predominantly high-crime neighborhoods, and you’d be fine with poor/black/hispanic neighborhoods? I’d certainly suspect racism if the objection was “but poor = crime!” rather than “looking at the actual statistics, that neighborhood has high crime”.