We're going to have to sacrifice at some point, better to do it soon rather than when the economic drag is -3%, the average global growth has been around 3% for decades, ignoring blips.
So what you're really sacrificing in trying to be "measured" is exactly the thing you wish not to, they are becoming mutually exclusive with every moment.
Compassionate as ever, we may not be dead, but what do you think will be the policies in a world where entire regions are uninhabitable and hundreds of millions of people are at the gates of the privileged?
I don't see anyone moaning about Snoopers charter anymore, even though it's confirmed to have allowed the use of citizens data seemingly unabated with little recourse. Government has tried awfully to keep China in line... wonder why that is? Couldn't have anything to do with it's near perfect digital autocracy, administered handily by it's own people against themselves.
We may not be killed, but some people will, that could very well be you, me or literally anyone, terrorism doesn't much care for people, it cares for goals and don't fool yourself into thinking that it's anything like religious extremism, it's an entirely different ball game when the goal, rightly or wrongly, is to save humanity from itself. Keep being foolish if you wish, i wont and neither will the people at the top.
We're in the perfect storm, because people keep thinking it will be OK, well it ******* isn't, we're losing our antibiotics, water scarcity is increasing by the day, fish stocks are likely to completely disappear by 2050, the inevitable nuclear terrorist is still absent, every recession is going to create reactionaries worse than the last, the judiciaries are untrusted, the police are untrusted, the government is untrusted.
I couldn't have imagined such a future 20 years ago, but i wont lie to myself now just to be fake-happy, i'd rather be able to survive the worst, regardless of how tame it could all very well be which is obviously what i'd hope, but hope is not a survival instinct. Maybe it's all depressing, but i don't really care if it is, it's simply a matter of being ready for outcomes, even regardless of compassion, this is purely selfish.
I am not saying to "fake" happy, but there is a lot of things out side of our control. If the governments around the world don't work together we are screwed, but why sit around depressed about it now? What is it going to gain.
And how are you going to get yourself ready When or if the country start coming down around us you're not going to be much better than off than the average person.