Opportunity cost is a real cost and Save as many lives as possible.

When faced with a choice, we have to understand that Opportunity cost is a real cost. However, after a choice is made, we must try to free ourselves of the retroactive burden and move forward with acceptance and Wu Wei.

For this reason, I tend to not give much weight to arguments that argue against thinking in terms of optimization. If anything matters…, then optimization matters. It doesn’t mean that optimization needs to be single-minded (i.e. maximization). It only means that while there is such thing as an Opportunity Cost, optimization is desirable.

This feels obvious and intuitive, but we do not always see that Opportunity cost is a real cost and choose to maximize the number of lives we save.