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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 November 2010 06:42:03AM 2 points [-]

Hell, people usually don't even do that when they think mercury in vaccines causes autism.

That's more a case of people saving their own kids before saving their neighbors'. If it's sufficiently hard to save oneself, people won't always get to the save one's neighbor part.

Comment author: Mass_Driver 29 November 2010 07:40:33AM 0 points [-]

That makes plenty of sense, Eugine_Nier, but the premise of this whole little exchange (admittedly, several layers up in the comment thread) was that at least some people do care enough to try to save their neighbors, and only refrain because of social norms against being annoyingly evangelical.

But it’s worth wondering, when we consider a society which upholds a free market of ideas which compete on their relative strength, whether we’ve taken adequate precautions against the sheer annoyingness of a society where the taboo on actually trying to convince others of one’s beliefs has been lifted.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 November 2010 08:04:06AM 1 point [-]

That makes plenty of sense, Eugine_Nier, but the premise of this whole little exchange (admittedly, several layers up in the comment thread) was that at least some people do care enough to try to save their neighbors, and only refrain because of social norms against being annoyingly evangelical.

In particular violating that social norm would make it harder for them to save themselves.

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