Thursday, July 16, 2020

THE USA is holding to a higher standard of social distancing than the world at large. Why? PART ONE.

The USA is holding to a higher standard of social distancing than the world at large.  
Reflected in markers such as that we want to keep schools closed, while the rest of the world is not.

Why is this?

Two heuristics or guides to thought are to use personality traits (OCEAN/the Big Five) to predict what ought to happen if such and such were the case, and to view things through what ought to happen if a group assumes Christian metaphysics as the reality on which we base the rightness or wrongness of our prudent actions.

A problem with trying to ask and answer this title's question is that an ad hoc explanation could go either way and have no compelling force.  So to make the analysis a little better, we would have to spell out what the conditions were, and predict what the assumptions would lead to, singularly and in interaction.