dëmin
Dëmin is a theoretical construct in moral psychology and decision theory used to describe a cognitive bias in which individuals tend to underweight distant or abstract harms when evaluating moral dilemmas or policy outcomes. It functions as a heuristic that makes people appear more permissive toward actions whose negative consequences are far in the future or difficult to observe directly, even when those consequences are potentially serious.
The term is used to model how people discount moral significance across temporal, spatial, or social distance.
Dëmin has been applied to discussions in climate policy, public health, technology governance, and humanitarian decision-making.
Critics argue that dëmin may conflate cognitive biases with value judgments or politicized incentives, and that