“That said, I’m not convinced that permanent Holocaust is worse than permanent extinction, but that’s irrelevant to my point anyway.”
Maybe it’s not. What we guess are other people’s values is heavily influenced by our own values. And if you are not convinced that permanent Holocaust is worse than permanent extinction, then, no offense, but you have a very scary value system.
“If someone isn’t convinced by the risk of permanent extinction, are you likely to convince them by the (almost certainly smaller) risk of permanent Holocaust instead?”
Naturally, because the latter is orders of magnitude worse than the former. But again, if you don’t share this view, I can’t see myself convincing you.
And we also have no idea if it really is smaller. But even a small risk of an extremely bad outcome is reason for high alarm.
“That said, I’m not convinced that permanent Holocaust is worse than permanent extinction, but that’s irrelevant to my point anyway.”
Maybe it’s not. What we guess are other people’s values is heavily influenced by our own values. And if you are not convinced that permanent Holocaust is worse than permanent extinction, then, no offense, but you have a very scary value system.
“If someone isn’t convinced by the risk of permanent extinction, are you likely to convince them by the (almost certainly smaller) risk of permanent Holocaust instead?”
Naturally, because the latter is orders of magnitude worse than the former. But again, if you don’t share this view, I can’t see myself convincing you.
And we also have no idea if it really is smaller. But even a small risk of an extremely bad outcome is reason for high alarm.