Title: Theory / Unimportant / Human / blog / Minding our way

Title: See the dark world
Description: Explanation of how we justify an unfair world, because world can't really be unfair
Creators: mindingourway
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Kind: Blog post

Name: tolerification
Definition: Upon noticing that the world is broken, they reflexively list reasons why it is still tolerable
Page: http://mindingourway.com/see-the-dark-world/
Example: denies the information, protesting that one can't make decisions by attaching dollar values to lives, because lives are sacred.
Example2: See that people won't spend thousands to save a life, so life is not worth much

Question: How to avoid tolerification
Answer: Ask yourself "what if" both sides are true at once. What if I lived in the world where it was both the case that lives are nigh invaluable, and it costs only a few thousand dollars to save a life?
Page: http://mindingourway.com/see-the-dark-world/

Question: How to ensure that you don't default to "do nothing" in case of choice
Answer: Consider "do nothing" as an action
Page: http://mindingourway.com/being-unable-to-despair/