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[–]InvoluntaryHalibut 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Like legal safeguards? Haven’t we already tried that shit? If you try to control society through lawyers the lawyers become corrupt. Lawyers and judges are just corrupt priests of the “government is magic” religion.

There are natural safeguards against corruption and unfairness. When everyone in a society is closely related to each other, like Iceland for example, there is incentive not to screw each other over, because of the selfish gene concept.

Also people that are related tend to evolve under a common set of cultural rules, and are more able to follow those rules than a genetic “outsider”.

Cultural rules are not just taught— we evolve to exploit them more efficiently. Different cultural regimes make sense for different environments. Europeans have been evolving under totally different conditions from Sub-saharan africans or other genetic groups. Its absurd that you can get everybody to follow the same set of rules by passing a bunch of laws.

A large number of the bankers, lawyers, political class, media have evolved within a cultural regime totally different than the typical european. Their survival strategy is to live within and off of other people’s societies while remaining exclusive and distinct culturally and genetically. Like all other societies, they exist to benefit themselves. The unfairness of their strategy to others is irrelevant to them. You are expecting that a related group of people within the bureaucracy will implement policies to protect the larger population from themselves. They are never going to do that.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Any safeguards.

Yes, the legal/judicial system is centralized. Decentralization would keep things more fair - including the monopoly on violence, removing another safeguard.

Iceland also doesn't have cities where you can be virtually anonymous in the middle of millions.

Indeed, their cultural engineering via immigrants, racism, gender, etc. are very disruptive, intentionally.

[–]Bigs 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Legal safeguards? I think as someone once said of the American constitution sums it up perfectly:

"Either the constitution allows all the thing that have happened, or it has proven to be useless at preventing them. Pick one?"

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

[–]Bigs 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Well that would be the first choice, that it allows them and so proves useless at preventing them - but take an amused upvote anyway

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Monopoly is the game, but hypocrisy is how they play it.