Let me be clear that I don't give a single fuck about the good of Society as such. Society only matters to me because people live in it.
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@StevenBrust We've seen plenty of people earnestly trying to make the big system work and being happy to see it roll over the small systems. -
@chaosprime I would argue that in those cases the failure with the small systems points out a flaw in understanding the large system. -
@StevenBrust It does. And sometimes those flaws arise because the large system regarded as a whole is regarded as the only important thing. -
@chaosprime As long as that is the case, efforts to fix systems--big or small--can have, at the most, cosmetic effects. -
@StevenBrust Well, I mean, efforts to fix systems big and small can easily murder people. So that's not what I'd call cosmetic. -
@StevenBrust Actually, not calling that cosmetic is fairly precisely my original point.
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@chaosprime Most of are pretty good person-to-person; the challenge is understanding the laws of motion for masses. -
@StevenBrust Sure. I'm saying my reason for caring to understand those laws isn't because the important thing is the masses as such. -
@chaosprime Okay, that makes sense.
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