Humanity isn't that sophisticated. People would rather become riddled with terminal cancer than go against their core values, peer group and authority figures in an emergency. They'll do it gladly without question. History is littered with fear motivated individuals quietly embrace self destructive atrocities. Our species engage in ritualistic self immolation which seems foolish from distance. Yet to those people they believe what they doing is a vital sacrifice and urgent to survive an existential threat. We build narratives in our heads to excuse throwing a virgin into the volcano to appease the gods. When it comes down to it 's one less mouth to feed when facing a famine. Humanity historically murders people that was taking more resources than they were producing. The elderly have been sacrificed to CoVID-19.

What is happening now is that is that our own survival instincts are backfiring spectacularly. People voluntarily threw themselves into the volcano believing the whole time they were doing right by their community. Humanity is intentionally poorly trained use critical thinking skills to correctly scrutinize sophisticated and malicious organizations that exploit identity politics to get people already frenzied by their core values constantly being under assault to question their friendly masters. Drenched in fear they bend to any authority figure that will pantomime back to them their tribal identifiers. You're friend threw himself into the volcano as so many did and will continue to do.