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Once we know what we’re dealing with and what we don’t know, then we can start asking questions about incentives to follow laws or not. To proceed otherwise is Rouseaian idealism, humans never came together to form societies, we were in societies before we were human.
Hobbes says as much. That is to say, we were pre-political and then became political. My argument tries to focus somewhat more narrowly on the failures of both collective self interest and the “pious pretense” variant as undermined by actual “cheating” observed currently
Walter Scheidel adds a bit more meat on the bones in The Great Leveler, which deals a bit with social formation as such from a biological standpoint, but I generally avoid stuff like the book Sapiens, which apparently does more of that. S Pinker of course does too
Usually my approach, particularly on the team shows and even the standalone eps, is discussing specifics and proceeding inductively, but some have said they missed the “prior” approach of exactly the stuff you have a gripe with, so I dusted off an old lecture of mine
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