2/ some tribes (gray, mostly) are comfortable with there being separate magisteria (e.g. moral vs immoral, and also legal vs illegal) while other tribes (red, blue) get very upset by this and want to simplify everything down to * legal AND good * bad AND illegal
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3/ Red wants to make it illegal to, I dunno, take your pick: burn the flag, sleep around, etc. Blue wants to make it illegal to be racist, say sexist things, hurt someone's feelings, etc.
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4/ One could take this argument off in a Kegan levels direction: maybe 3 wants to simplify things, and 5 understands that you need separate systems at separate times, for distinct purposes. But that's not the direction I want to go.
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5/ I was thinking more of a Claude Shannon perspective (information theory). Morality-is-legality is a 1 bit system, and is capable of cleaving the universe into two realms: good and bad.
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6/ morality-vs-legality is a 2-bit system, and cleaves the universe into 4 segments. Picture a venn diagram with the circles labeled "moral?" and "legal?" Four distinct regions.
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7/ There's a lot more nuance in policy when you have four regions. E.g. torture and a ticking atomic bomb. Legality sets incentives. If you legalize torture because of the ticking bomb scenario, you have incentivized torture at all times and places.
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8/ Understanding that morality != legality means that you can keep something illegal even if you want it to happen on ultra rare occasions...because the alternative is to incentivize it to happen much more often The point here is related to, but not exactly "value of hypocrisy"
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9/ The point is simply this: when you have multiple axises you have more distinct spaces on the map. Gimbal lock is bad because it degrades the state space (metaphor)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock …
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