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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2/ The question "how can a libertarian call something 'wrong' ?" reveals a deep confusion of categories. There are two axises: morality and law. They are largely orthogonal. "Libertarian" is a statement about what I want to be legal / illegal.
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4/ Let me also add that I think that 99% of traditional morality is NOT "irrational babbling of a sky god". I think that the vast majority of Chesterton fences keep us away from bad things that (a) do harm, (b) have enticing sales models, (c) hide the harm at the back end. >>>
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5/ To a very clever 19 year old, prohibitions on premarital sex seem insane. To a child who grew up poor bc just one parent, to a childless woman who was sterilized by an STD, etc., etc. etc the effects are perceived...even if not correlated in their mind with the prohibition.
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6/ The 19 year old may be smarter than his or her parents, but he or she is NOT smarter than 10,000 years of massively parallel human history, with all of the experimentation, failure, and success that that entails.
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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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All sorts of things are STABLE. Sometimes there are multiple stable equilibria, but one is much higher quality.
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Well as I indicated, if the U.S. descends into a state of constant scarcity and conflict, polygamy and child marriage MIGHT strictly outperform monogamy. Thankfully western society enables us to produce the surplus that makes Western Civ the globally optimal strategy. So far.
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Replying to @thepiclord @MorlockP
Might be treading into r/K selection theory with this, though.
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