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Social systems defy first-principles thinking unless you sinter them into a fused mass with well-behaved aggregate properties. Analogical thinking works slightly better but not by much. It’s a slim edge.
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I suspect free-speech fetishism (and “classical liberalism” fetishism generally) comes from imagining it’s like a first principle. Whether or not it’s good ethics, it’s definitely not one in a physics sense. As in, an FSF system is no more governable than any other.