Risk is defined as hazard times exposure. But what drives us to tolerate certain exposures?
Tag: righteous risks
Righteous Risks Part 4: Vaporising e-cigarettes
To put it lightly, the tobacco industry is unloved. The WHO has led a decades-long campaign to denormalise “Big Tobacco” – ostracising these companies and working with activist allies to exclude them from participating in policy, public discourse and societal institutions. There are an army of institutions and NGOs who have one goal and only…
Righteous Risks Part 3: The Electric Vehicle Halo
EVs are ethically pure. Dirty, evil petrol and diesel cars never had a chance.
Righteous Risks Part 2: Foundations of Virtue
Foundations pay activists to relentlessly push policymakers into moral quagmires
Righteous Risks: Introduction
A righteous risk is a threat of harm to societal well-being that arises when decisions are based solely on widely-shared moral perceptions, social virtues and ethical ideals. This value-based policy approach does not consider facts or data in a consistent manner with certain actors, reinforced by social media tribes, imposing their ideals upon others. Righteous…
The Risk-Monger 