On a personal level, this reminds me of a concept called normalization of deviance. [1]
Every time we do something which we know may be risky, but we do not have a catastrophic result, we further reduce the perceived risk that the catastrophic result will occur to us.
Every time we do something which we know may be risky, but we do not have a catastrophic result, we further reduce the perceived risk that the catastrophic result will occur to us.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance