Quick clarification: My target here is not so much people with radically different empirical beliefs (such that they regard vaccines as net-negative), but rather the particular form of status quo bias that I discuss in the original post.
My guess is that for relatively elite audiences (like those who read philosophy blogs), they’re unlikely to feel attached to this status quo bias as part of their identity, but their default patterns of thought may lead them to (accidentally, as it were) give it more weight than it deserves. So a bit of heated rhetoric and stigmatization of the thought-pattern in question may help to better inoculate them against it.
Quick clarification: My target here is not so much people with radically different empirical beliefs (such that they regard vaccines as net-negative), but rather the particular form of status quo bias that I discuss in the original post.
My guess is that for relatively elite audiences (like those who read philosophy blogs), they’re unlikely to feel attached to this status quo bias as part of their identity, but their default patterns of thought may lead them to (accidentally, as it were) give it more weight than it deserves. So a bit of heated rhetoric and stigmatization of the thought-pattern in question may help to better inoculate them against it.
(Just a guess though — I could be wrong!)