Related: people pretending towards high status focus very hard on The Rules, while high status people are so native to The Rules that they: - Don't have to put effort in to follow - Know how/when to break them - Know how/when transgressions are used to preserve ingroup
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Thinking a lot about this in a class system
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Hmm. That's an interesting extension of this idea: https://musingsandroughdrafts.wordpress.com/2018/11/26/honor-is-about-common-knowledge/ … Being able to cheat means that you're strong?
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would be nice to hear some more about the Mahabharata context. I thought there was a defining scene where Duryodhana had to choose between Krishna and his army. He chose army. Wasn't it a conscious choice..
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Yeah but that’s not a cheat. It was a choice Krishna offered. I’m thinking of Arjuna killing Karna while his chariot wheel was stuck, Ashwathamma the elephant incident, Bhima hitting below the belt, Bhishma getting killed because he refused to shoot at Sikhandin...many more
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In South America this is called “viveza criolla”. Basically a kind of low cunning. No rules, except the ones you get caught on.
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Seems to be similar in cultures that substitute money for honor eg america. If you can cheat and it gets you rich, more power to ya, you've played capitalism and won
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Exodus is like this. The heroes are lying and cheating their way through their encounters with Pharaoh, etc. Rahab the prostitute becomes a hero this way. Interestingly, lying is not forbidden by the Ten Commandments. “Bearing false witness” (falsely accusing someone) is.
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The gods are seen to favor you in proportion to how much cheating they let you get away with.
This is a big theme in the Mahabharata. 90% of the cheating in it is by the god-favored ‘good guys’.