In general, I think the degree of compliance with any social norm one typically observes should be surprising. I’ve long thought it’s remarkable that people intent on harming others do not use cars as weapons of destruction as much as they have recently. So I think there’s something disturbing and something encouraging about this, in that we see lots of facile ways to hurt others be far rarer than we would expect in the presence of perfect information.
In general, I think the degree of compliance with any social norm one typically observes should be surprising. I’ve long thought it’s remarkable that people intent on harming others do not use cars as weapons of destruction as much as they have recently. So I think there’s something disturbing and something encouraging about this, in that we see lots of facile ways to hurt others be far rarer than we would expect in the presence of perfect information.