Beating up Nazis is an attempt at being anti-tribal. "The nazis like whites only, but I love everyone except nazis"
How can you have big business if you don't have widespread trust? Maybe you would say that widespread trust requires widespread
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trustworthyness? Where does trustworthyness come from? Low violence, willingness to cooperate, and sure, govt enforcement
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I don't see government enforcement as the most important of these though.
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It is, by far, the most important. Systems of social control then create moral intuitions that are a secondary means of control.
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In the absence of strong state power, you get smaller organizations: mafias, gangs, nepotistic networks, etc.
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These create different moral intuitions. Moral intuitions reflect the social environment more than they create it.
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I see the causation going the other way mainly, but I don't have a good way to prove this
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The state. You impose trust using state power. Police, a justice system, etc. The state changes the payoff matrix in the prisoner's dilemma.
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If you put a bunch of very nice Swedes on an island, I expect they'll do quite well with a minimal state. Not true for all groups
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People are different, but Swedes wouldn't be able to cooperate on a large scale without state coercion.
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I think they'll spontaneously organize into a rather minimal state. (maybe swedes aren't libertarian enough for this, but some groups are)
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