Government risk regulation legitimately differs from individual decision-making: because governments operate population-wide, they can reasonably worry about one-in-a-hundred-thousand risks or less, whereas for most individuals most of the time such precautions make no sense because the associated anxiety is itself a cost (and an adverse health effect) that exceeds the precaution's benefit.
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Cass SunsteinEvidence Quote
“probably it's good to distinguish between medical applications ... and government responses where governments because they're dealing on a population wide basis there probably are definitely legitimately concerned with one in a hundred thousand risk or less but for most of us most of the time it probably doesn't make ... any sense because of the ... associated anxiety itself a cost”
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