Metastable
Failure to correct for a heuristic is a failure of rationality. Failure to correct for a heuristic, even when one knows one fails to correct for it, is still a failure of rationality.
Eric S. Raymond
@Aella_Girl A lot of us have been so burned by past instances of panic-mongering as power grab that we're now basically incapable of believing that people who are panic-mongering don't have corrupt motives. Possibly that's not a good heuristic in the end, but it's the one we've learned.