The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

We have social antibodies to protect us against tyranny, but we have nothing to protect us against permissiveness. We mistake all authority for tyranny, but we aren’t wise enough to instinctively mistrust freedomhttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1105455388508319744 …

You will often find that the damage caused by a single mistake is not even visible. Many errors are latent and their severity only becomes clear at the moment of crisis

Even so, single sins don’t matter as much as trends, which is a way of saying habitual sins. Zero tolerance is simple to implement but in practice it’s unsustainably brittle.

The same is true of civilizations as individuals: one bad law/idea/institution isn’t what sinks us. A catastrophe requires many failures in concert

I want you to understand both sin and civic decay holistically, as points of failure in robust and complex systems. This will enable you to practice justice and forgiveness in simultaneity. This will allow you to feel pessimism without fatalism

More importantly this will prevent you from mistaking fault tolerance for moral anarchy. If traditions are so important, why can we peel them away one by one without a collapse? Now you know the answerhttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1100426925657354242 …

In your efforts to build theories of masculine virtue, you don’t consider graceful degradation in the face of failure. “Don’t fail” is the contingency plan of an idiot. When you do this, you invite much-deserved ridicule

The liberals that you hate will watch you fail to implement your brittle morality and gloat “see? promiscuity and profligacy are Good”. These types are common; first they learn a few sympathetic signals and then undermine you with “reasonable” positions