I am simultaneously a libertarian and a socialcon. As a libertarian, I don't want to criminalize things unless they clearly harm innocent bystanders. As a Catholic I do not shy away from calling things that contradict scripture or lead humans into leading bad lives "immoral".https://twitter.com/shruuu/status/1066040283681325056 …
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Lindy effect. If a cultural institution or tradition persists for centuries, this demonstrates it has survived many shocks without dying. Likely because it protects against risks that are not obvious but have large effect. Not many old cultures around that practiced "free love."
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Granted there can be divergent cultural evolution. Polygamy and child marriage seems to be a stable tradition as practiced in Middle East. But thats attributable to fitness for different environment. Namely, one that assumes a default state of constant scarcity and warfare. No?
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A big part of the problem is that many people, perhaps as a function of intelligence (not only biological, but cultural, though the distinction is ephemeral) are unable to perceive law as orthogonal to morality. Internalizing this realization is the end of libertarianism
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Or as Blake wrote, one law for the lion and the ox is oppression
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