I would like to solicit a post on “Criminal Philosophy” (not psychology, sociology or org theory). How powerful and successful criminals answer life/universe/everything questions.
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Probably some version of this guy's argument: "'injustice, if it is on a large enough scale, is stronger, freer, and more masterly than justice' (iep.utm.edu/thrasymachus/
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You could argue that the entire project of Western philosophy, starting with Plato, has been an attempt to refute Thrasymachus (except for Nietzsche, who argued he was right all along).
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Actually the Italian mob is too special case to be interesting as core running example I think
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Might be interesting to contrast Yakuza thinking with the CEOs of criminal orgs. I suspect it’s simpler and boring-er than we’d like to think
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"virtue is to be feared more than vice because it is not subject to the regulations of our conscious" ie vice/criminal behaivor has the benefit of having generations of development.
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They answer with a hoot from the right and one from the left, so two hoots.





