Comment by KerrAvon
4 years ago
Soylent Green is “socially efficient.”
Anecdotally, it’s not a small number of people. Ask a parent of school-age children in the past ten years. It’s increasing, for some reason.
4 years ago
Soylent Green is “socially efficient.”
Anecdotally, it’s not a small number of people. Ask a parent of school-age children in the past ten years. It’s increasing, for some reason.
I'm the parent of a school aged child. Due to the high occurrence of nut allergies they have eliminated nuts from all school lunch items. For example instead of peanut butter sandwiches they now offer sunflower butter sandwiches. My child is allergic to sunflowers.
> Soylent Green is “socially efficient.”
No it's not, but it's a good sniff test for people who have a zeroth-order model of utilitarianism and aren't thinking about things like incentives.
> It’s increasing, for some reason.
I agree - my suspicion is that accommodating the 0.1% of kids with peanut allergies means that another 0.5% of kids (or whatever, made up fractions) never get enough exposure to peanut allergens to develop a tolerance, so the problem is self-reinforcing.