Religions have issues: they destroy epistemology and impair rationalism, they are either totalitarian or toothless when it comes to implementing order, the admin needs to be intransparent (corruption!), and they establish acceptance criteria that not the nicest religion might win
I don't actually think that is true! People were mostly fine with their kings. Eventually, people will accept systems of norms that they think gives them the best outcome they can expect. The problems happen when people don't get enough, or think they could bargain for more.
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Even the kings needed an elaborate system of rules producing justice, and when it failed there was trouble. And people can't know and mostly don't care how optimal the outcome; they react however very emotional if they perceive it is not a fair outcome. Lots of research on that.
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Yes, justice is very important. But what passes as just and fair is malleable and not universal. Is it fair if the strong clobbers the weak? Is it fair when the unfit take from the successful ones? Are we universalists or is it ok to look out more for our own?
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