Modern urbanites defuse situational ignorance by avoiding unprepared places

Evidence

The key feature of organized diffusion is not the information it transmits but the social facts it creates. When a community makes a collective public commitment, it changes what every member knows about what every other member knows and believes. The pluralistic ignorance that sustained the old norm is dissolved by the act of public collective deliberation. The parent who privately doubted the practice but assumed everyone else approved discovers, through the deliberation process, that the doubt is widely shared. — , The Rod and the Child, 7371 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It is a feature of the human predicament (and so of the legislative one) that we labour under two connected handicaps whenever we seek to regulate, unambiguously and in advance, some sphere of conduct by means of general standards to be used without further official direction on particular occasions. The first handicap is our relative ignorance of fact: the second is our relative indeterminacy of aim. — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 368 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Urban history trends from appearance-based to location-based ordering; Lone urbanites create private space through body management rather than by changing place; Urbanites suppress obvious reconnaissance to shorten their exposure to settled observers (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Collective public commitment dissolves pluralistic ignorance by revealing shared doubt #corroborates (0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 7371
• Humans face ignorance of facts and indeterminacy of aim when regulating conduct #expands (0.50) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 368