I think you’re assuming people’s evil comes entirely from within rather than interacting to a degree with bad cooperation systems, and that the evil can only be “contained” by “good rational” people. I think that’s a huge moral error, but I will explain myself much more thoroughly in a followup post (I refer you to my reply to kbog’s comment above)
Evil is not contained by good rational people, it’s contained by inefficiently. Systematic murder has to go through a legislative process, not through a cortisol addicts trigger happy political beliefs. If alcoholics had to travel on foot for a week to get to a bar, some would make the trip but most would just switch to a more convenient addiction. Like Twitter.
It doesn’t come from within often, it usually comes from trauma. Politics can prevent that to some extent but it won’t stop death, infertility, natural disasters, disability, accidents, and a whole range of traumas that existed before politics. In a perfect world there would be less evil, but still evil. Trauma + that small percentage of people who are just evil.
I think you’re assuming people’s evil comes entirely from within rather than interacting to a degree with bad cooperation systems, and that the evil can only be “contained” by “good rational” people. I think that’s a huge moral error, but I will explain myself much more thoroughly in a followup post (I refer you to my reply to kbog’s comment above)
Evil is not contained by good rational people, it’s contained by inefficiently. Systematic murder has to go through a legislative process, not through a cortisol addicts trigger happy political beliefs. If alcoholics had to travel on foot for a week to get to a bar, some would make the trip but most would just switch to a more convenient addiction. Like Twitter.
It doesn’t come from within often, it usually comes from trauma. Politics can prevent that to some extent but it won’t stop death, infertility, natural disasters, disability, accidents, and a whole range of traumas that existed before politics. In a perfect world there would be less evil, but still evil. Trauma + that small percentage of people who are just evil.