Hmm I didn’t know Max Weber helped draft the Weimar constitution. Case that the Weimar analogy is misguided.https://twitter.com/nfergus/status/1302628444887330816 …
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I’ve been wondering lately if people overindex on the death count as the kpi of political conflict severity. From a humanitarian perspective 10x more deaths may be 10x more tragic, but from a political effectiveness perspective, one viral death on social media = 100 1930s deaths
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In a way “human life” is like the gold standard of moral currency. We’re no longer on it. We’re in sort of Breton Woods weird hybrid stage of gold+dollar. Gold = human life, dollar = fiat institutional capital base of global orgs. And we may get off gold standard entirely.
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By which I don’t mean human life will become worthless. It will just become a precious hedge commodity like gold today, but with no special status. It will allow us to gauge seriousness of low-fatality crises properly. It will make humane euthanasia laws politically viable.
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Sounds ugly but “way fewer people are dying” should NOT be a reason to take a political crisis less seriously. People dying is not only not the only way people can suffer, it is not the worst way. The worst way is people being forced to *live* in intolerable conditions.
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I should work out this analogy in detail (gold standard = human death standard).
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