Quote:
Originally Posted by SebC
This is pretty self-evident. People who are sleeping when the alert is issued have been asleep for some length of time. In that time they can not possibly have gained any useful knowledge. So yes, on average, people who are asleep when the alert is issued both provide less value and are more costly to disturb.
|
There certainly more costly to disturb. The value of notifying people in each case is near zero and statistically indistinguishable with current data. (Ie 10 Amber Alerts)
But you do key in on the point the people who want it changed keep denying. That their empathy for the child is limited to being meaninglessly disturbed during the day. Once the cost to them increases it no longer outweighs the altruism.
It isn’t about effectiveness because no one has the information. It isn’t about a government F451 situation. It’s quite simply that people value their sleep more than the minute chance they can help. The rest is justification to support their opinion so they don’t have to say it.
Now people are too harsh with these people who aren’t as altruistic as them but let’s not pretend the reason behind isn’t selfish. Most human decisions are selfish.