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Creeping normality or death by a thousand cuts refers to the way a major change can be accepted as the normal situation if it happens slowly, in unnoticed increments, when it would be regarded as objectionable if it took place in a single step or short period. Examples would be a change in job responsibilities or a change in a medical condition. American scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond has invoked the concept (as well as that of landscape amnesia) in attempting to explain why in the course of long-term environmental degradation, Easter Island natives would, seemingly irrationally, chop down the last tree: ==See also== * ''Principiis obsta'' * Shifting baseline * Boiling frog – creeping normality metaphor * Camel's nose – creeping normality metaphor * Moving the goalposts * Overton window * Slippery slope – an argument, sometimes fallacious * Salami tactics * "First they came..." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Creeping normality」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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