Maybe another way to think about this (dropping the religion stuff—don’t want to cast aspersions on any particular religions) is that we could think of black-ball and white-ball ideologies (like the Bostrom thought experiment where black-balls = technologies which can cause extinction). Perhaps certain ideologies are just much more exclusive and expansion focused than others—black-balls. You can pick out as many white-balls as you like, but picking out a black-ball means you have to get rid of your white-balls. Even if there are few black-balls in the bag, you’d always end up holding one.
Interesting, is this the sort of thing you have in mind? It at least seems similar to me, and I remember thinking that post got at something important.
Maybe another way to think about this (dropping the religion stuff—don’t want to cast aspersions on any particular religions) is that we could think of black-ball and white-ball ideologies (like the Bostrom thought experiment where black-balls = technologies which can cause extinction). Perhaps certain ideologies are just much more exclusive and expansion focused than others—black-balls. You can pick out as many white-balls as you like, but picking out a black-ball means you have to get rid of your white-balls. Even if there are few black-balls in the bag, you’d always end up holding one.
Interesting, is this the sort of thing you have in mind? It at least seems similar to me, and I remember thinking that post got at something important.