A consent-based morality inevitably leads to the exploitation of children and, let’s be honest, everyone else
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Replying to @AuronMacintyre
NRx in a nutshell: every government is a theocracy, whether it realizes it or not.
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Replying to @MagneticNightm1 @AuronMacintyre
Not exactly true - but governments are always vulnerable to capture by a religious collective because religions allow non-kin coordination. A government that lacks a state religion has no way to stop this.
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Additionally, we do have a state religion now, and DC is big rent-seeking orgy. On a scale never seen before. The key to mitigate capture and rent-seeking is accountability.
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The key is having a *sane* state religion - not just any state religion. We have an insane state religion that is growing more and more insane by the day.
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Of course our state religion is fake and gay and doesn’t provide any true internal restraints to rent-seeking, like a good religion should do. Obviously, U.S. now a low-trust society for a lot of reasons.
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However, Ancient Greece did seem to exhibit characteristics of a high-trust society without any Christian-like religion.
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Could it be in the long-run a state can’t maintain social trust unless some degree of kin relationship? i.e., a nation founded (re-founded?) on an idea like we are may be in trouble.
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Not necessarily, it's typical in history for the ruling class to be very different genetically from the larger population. India is where this shines through the most, but in Europe most of the families were german iirc.
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In the (very) long run the elites are going to be genetically related to the ruled because a productive elite solves the woman question which means they successfully reproduce which means there's downward mobility for their offspring who disperse into the population.
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