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Shut up and do the impossible. People are accepting things they can't change all the freaking time, and then they can change them but they don't because they've accepted them. Accept death and oppose cryonics, accept pain and oppose anesthesia. Even if it were reversible it'd be dangerous because it prevents you from trying harder, but historically it's been worse than that.
Depression is an exception, because it's detached unhappiness.
I'm talking about accepting things that have already happened. Wanting to prevent any future deaths is a good thing. Continuing to feel bad about deaths that have already happened is, past a certain point, counterproductive.
So, extreme sunk cost indifference? Might work. Doesn't it make negative reinforcement too small?
And, from an abstract behavioural perspective, can sometimes be considered to be accepting negative circumstances and not trying to change them.