Status in an honor culture, ironically, seems to be about how much you can cheat
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’.
Yep. I suspect there were no real traders in the Axial Age in the Jacobs commerce syndrome sense. I think that’s really traceable to 1400-1600 and early-modern mercantile cities. Spinoza might have been the first true philosophical trader.
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I was thinking about my model related to Jacobs http://www.growwiser.com/files/2014/08/Plurality-of-Absolutes.png … The key is that while the group has an essential and internally consistent moral code, it cannot be defended without breaking it. So Kauravas breaks the moral code for himself, Krishna to guard the group.
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Something like that. It’s a form of the attribution error if you think about it: when I do it, I’m defending honor, when they do it they’re succumbing to moral decay
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