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The flip side of this is when people assume that anything bad must have a counter-balancing "silver lining" that evens the overall outcome to exactly zero. This happens particularly often, for example, when I suggest that if it were possible to completely eradicate clinical depression then we should do so.
Yes, status quo bias also seems to have arisen from an evolutionary history of no/(very slow) growth.
I wonder whether either or both applies to the True Ending to "Three Worlds Collide".