At first glance the articles by: Gladwell, Gardner, and Sunstein seem to have no real overlap or even consideration to be in the same topic but taking a “fine-tooth comb” and reevaluating the thesis of each it becomes apparent that they in fact have a major overlap. The shared concept of when does weighing risks become too far and inhuman is where all three share their substance. In Sunstein’s novel, Risk and Reason, the thesis is stated clearly within chapter two, “How ordinary thinking goes wrong, and how the errors are especially important, and pernicious in the design of public policy”. This then provides the rational of what is determined/defined as important and the way it was conceptualized as so. Then with Gladwell’s case study, “The
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Through reading Risk and Reason cost-benefits are clearly defined as being, “...means of overcoming predictable problems in individual and social cognition” (Sunstein 29). Though this “predictable problems” is decided that from developing from what our interpretation is of risk is and what qualifies as importance. Society is what also factors into determining what is an important risk and what is not. Society is determines focuses and outlooks of happenings along with how they should be evaluated. Then looking at “The Engineer’s Lament” it is determined at “prioritize the most dangerous problems. Then you have to figure out when to pull the trigger” (Gladwell 2). With this quote it becomes narrowed down as to how to figure out a layer of importance which is what is going to either make things worse or what is easy to fix. Having said this, in many cases this is how things are sorted through because in hospitals and army’s go through the triage method which is how to organize patients in times of need. Overall the “most” or “importance” would be an objective term and based on the person doing the assessment at that given time. Then in “The Duty of Civility” it is noted that “anything goes” which is once again reiterating that it is subjective and mainly based on emotions (Gardner 2). Gardner is also noting about how civility is playing a major factor into what can be done and what is socially acceptable. People are not just using analysis to see if they should help someone, but are going through and seeing if it would be good for the image that the world perceives them as which is mentioned at the end of page
Through reading Risk and Reason cost-benefits are clearly defined as being, “...means of overcoming predictable problems in individual and social cognition” (Sunstein 29). Though this “predictable problems” is decided that from developing from what our interpretation is of risk is and what qualifies as importance. Society is what also factors into determining what is an important risk and what is not. Society is determines focuses and outlooks of happenings along with how they should be evaluated. Then looking at “The Engineer’s Lament” it is determined at “prioritize the most dangerous problems. Then you have to figure out when to pull the trigger” (Gladwell 2). With this quote it becomes narrowed down as to how to figure out a layer of importance which is what is going to either make things worse or what is easy to fix. Having said this, in many cases this is how things are sorted through because in hospitals and army’s go through the triage method which is how to organize patients in times of need. Overall the “most” or “importance” would be an objective term and based on the person doing the assessment at that given time. Then in “The Duty of Civility” it is noted that “anything goes” which is once again reiterating that it is subjective and mainly based on emotions (Gardner 2). Gardner is also noting about how civility is playing a major factor into what can be done and what is socially acceptable. People are not just using analysis to see if they should help someone, but are going through and seeing if it would be good for the image that the world perceives them as which is mentioned at the end of page