A system can be more evil than the sum of the evil of its human parts. If you don’t account for emergent evil, you’ll end up with a useless morality where you can’t distinguish between people within human range of good/evil at all. It’s like adding a big constant to your y-axis.
How do you compute the evil synergy factor in an organization?
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I leave that as a homework exercise
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first intuition on the subject: evil compounds while traversing up hierarchies and disperses while traversing down hierarchies. the greater the degree of verticality in an organization the greater the the coefficient of evil that org is capable of producing.
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organizations where power has been devolved towards the base, and that have a more horizontal or syndicated org structure are still capable of committing evil but the evil synergy coefficient is limited because of the naturally cellular nature of such orgs.
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to maximize the evil synergy coefficient, each intervening step of evil coagulation has to appear to those committing the act to be not evil or only a little evil. this means that visibility of the consequences of action has to be limited. whole org operating with blinders on.
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so in addition to a high degree of verticality there also has to be a low degree of interconnectivity. hierarchical tiers have to be isolated from everything except the tier immediately below (subordinates) and immediately above (supervisor).
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the most synergistically evil orgs possible, then, are totalitarian bureaucracies with limited internal accountability mechanisms and an infallible singular leader at the top.
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