Most or all of these vary by culture. In some places, it is expected that everyone will bring a non-dining friend to dinner, or not contribute to a wiki.
Things exist because of reasons. In a counterfactual world where everyone did X, maybe Y wouldn’t exist, but in reality very few people do X—usually because doing X is culturally frowned on, or requires more cash, brains, or neurodivergences than 67% of everyone.
Yep. It’s perfectly consistent to say “I will do X even though, if everyone did X, bad things would happen because if enough people start doing X that it starts to become a problem, then I’ll stop doing X”.
Most or all of these vary by culture. In some places, it is expected that everyone will bring a non-dining friend to dinner, or not contribute to a wiki.
Things exist because of reasons. In a counterfactual world where everyone did X, maybe Y wouldn’t exist, but in reality very few people do X—usually because doing X is culturally frowned on, or requires more cash, brains, or neurodivergences than 67% of everyone.
Yep. It’s perfectly consistent to say “I will do X even though, if everyone did X, bad things would happen because if enough people start doing X that it starts to become a problem, then I’ll stop doing X”.