General distaste for all intellectual projects to recreate society.
What counts as an "intellectual project to recreate society"? Is it better to perpetuate the mistakes of the past, and leave things broken, because to do otherwise would be to "recreate society"? Even if doing so in actuality pledges your fealty to a previous such intellectual project? Even if inaction has victims– real living, breathing victims– of its own?
Most movements don't actually consider the human costs of disruption of norms on actual living, breathing people, for whom such disruptions are not statistical aberrations but real crises with real consequences. Inaction is always easy to measure and quantify, action is trickier to justify or examine because those policies have not yet actually been instituted.
To take one example, it is easy to call for "saner" environmental policies, but to what degree can we be sure that the (real) harm caused to future generations by climate changes outweighs the (equally real and immediate) harm to those whose livelihoods are dependent on producing coal, oil, and natural gas, or to the massive costs needed to renovate the power grid, or to the extra expense of transportation to those struggling to get by as is? We cannot quantify the harm of inaction over the next century, so how do we know the consequences of global climate change then outweigh the costs of action now? This bias of action or just
doing something to look like you're doing something over the alternative solution of actually weighing whether the consequences of inaction outweigh the consequences of action is very distasteful.
Given that action generally takes more effort and resources and involves more disruption than inaction, the standard of proof that action is justified is much higher.
Is there any space in your worldview to try and make the world a better place (in full knowledge that success is never guaranteed)
Of course the well-being of people can be improved by the efforts of other people. I'm distrustful of any attempts to do that on a systematic level. You improve people's lives by covering for your coworker when she goes to take her kids to the doctor or by volunteering at your local food bank. That doesn't make the world a better place, though. The world is neither good nor bad, the world simply is. You can make other people's lives more pleasant and your own more pleasant by extension, though.
