the ultimate dream of a society where everything follows a rule and so you never have to convince another human to show empathy because if you want to do something, follow the rule and it happens no matter what anyone else wants, and if it's against the rule it *cannot* happen...
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The galaxy brain version of this is Marxism, which assumes the rules (or, maybe "norms") exist and are binding *because* of empathy and that empathy is sustained because... these are the rules and anyone not empathetic would not be able to function
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SV technolibertarians' flavor of the bog standard utopian's ideal social form where we all mainline information transfer directly from the source, be that information abstracted in money or social capital
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Mind explaining?
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It's like the bit from "Rum Diaries" about the guy who was dead certain that the system was rigged--but that he, of all people, was smart enough to play the game and come out ahead.
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After all, if all is By The Rules and empathy is irrelevant, then the fact that you can't convince anyone to feel it for you doesn't matter...
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