3/ No one thinks they're the bad guy. Everyone has some motive for what he does. In a conflict with one set of facts, there are [ at least ] two narratives that contextualize the facts. e.g. "This employee is committing wage theft by failing to clock out for lunch" vs
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14/ the "in flux" is the one that ties this in to
#BarnLaw If we have a law on the books, and two competing tribes, one of which ignores the law (to the point that they don't realize it exists), and one of which respects the law, then red shirt deaths will not occur when >>>Show this thread -
15/ team A (don't enforce) is in power, nor will they occur when team B (death penalty) is in power, but when power is shifting between the two one day team B has 45% of the votes, the next day they have 51% ...and the war machine springs to life
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16/ now, the
#BarnLaw connection: my state and town have had the death penalty ("tear down that structure!") law on the books for years, but team A (old school townies who believe in rule of man not rule of law) has been solidly in control, so zero deaths (bc zero enforcement)Show this thread -
17/ If (when ?) the middle class rule-of-law autists are in control, everyone will know that the law applies AS WRITTEN, and it doesn't matter if you are drinking buddies with one guy on the Board of Selectmen ...however, the TRANSITION period, where the rule-of-man townies>>>
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18/ are institutionally weak but haven't faced a external / secular (long term trend of migration and gentrification) / autistic shock is EXACTLY when risk of drone-strike-the-red-shirt is at the highest Regime legitimacy is uncertain, a child says the emperor has no clothes...
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19/ ...and a public poll / warrant article / ballot question crystallizes hidden sentiment and displays the results in the open, revealing the Schelling point that has existed but been unexposed all this time. Exciting times. Sucks to be a poor SOB in a red shirt, tho >>>
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20/ ...because you were following the rules AS YOU UNDERSTOOD THEM TO EXIST (rule of man), and your internal narrative was just as legitimate as anyone else's. exeunt
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I thought they only died whenever they beamed down to the surface with Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock.
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