Ooh good observation. It can be so much harder to notice things that aren’t there.
The answer to why I didn’t make a social norm objection is simple: I don’t have to tell anyone that won’t understand. It’s not like anyone is going to publish my name in the newspaper.
Interesting that they don’t appear to realize this. Maybe the difference is that if you’re talking to people in a non-anonymous context where others are overhearing, they will appear wary of cryo for social reasons, but I can’t help but wonder if they then go away and think about it on their own, privately considering it’s merits. After all, this is life or death, right?
Maybe the only thing that you have to do to overcome this is tell people it can be done privately (I’m only assuming that it can be, can it?) and to present cryo to them when nobody else is around.
Or you could open the cryo discussion with something to the effect of “If everyone else were jumping off a cliff, would you do it just because they were?” If no, which is likely, then: “If there was something that could keep you from dying but it wasn’t popular, would you say it was jumping off a cliff with them if you would not even consider it?” If yes, then: “Cryo could stop you from dying. It isn’t popular, but would you consider it anyway?”
That pits an even more socially unacceptable thing, being such a sheep that you die, against something that can’t possibly be as unacceptable since it doesn’t require you to knowingly make a decision which leads to your own death. Unless survivor’s guilt is prevalent, in which case the irrational notion “But I shouldn’t kill everyone else by surviving!” trumps “I can’t jump off a cliff like an idiot.”
Ooh good observation. It can be so much harder to notice things that aren’t there.
The answer to why I didn’t make a social norm objection is simple: I don’t have to tell anyone that won’t understand. It’s not like anyone is going to publish my name in the newspaper.
Interesting that they don’t appear to realize this. Maybe the difference is that if you’re talking to people in a non-anonymous context where others are overhearing, they will appear wary of cryo for social reasons, but I can’t help but wonder if they then go away and think about it on their own, privately considering it’s merits. After all, this is life or death, right?
Maybe the only thing that you have to do to overcome this is tell people it can be done privately (I’m only assuming that it can be, can it?) and to present cryo to them when nobody else is around.
Or you could open the cryo discussion with something to the effect of “If everyone else were jumping off a cliff, would you do it just because they were?” If no, which is likely, then: “If there was something that could keep you from dying but it wasn’t popular, would you say it was jumping off a cliff with them if you would not even consider it?” If yes, then: “Cryo could stop you from dying. It isn’t popular, but would you consider it anyway?”
That pits an even more socially unacceptable thing, being such a sheep that you die, against something that can’t possibly be as unacceptable since it doesn’t require you to knowingly make a decision which leads to your own death. Unless survivor’s guilt is prevalent, in which case the irrational notion “But I shouldn’t kill everyone else by surviving!” trumps “I can’t jump off a cliff like an idiot.”