as a social institution, monasteries take people as an input and provide trustworthy people as an output
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i'm not familiar with Caplan, i'll have to look this up! am i understanding you that you think these things /do/ produce trustworthy people, but that from your perspective the mechanisms are not obvious / simple?
yes! summary of his theory - https://quillette.com/2018/06/03/bryan-caplans-case-education-review/ … so given that we trust people from monasteries (I think we do)...
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the question is, do they take untrustworthy people and make them good, or simply prove who was trustworthy to begin with?
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interesting! ok! my sense is - take people and make them more trustworthy. some people will be "untrustworthy," some won't but should be /more/ trustworthy by the way out.
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