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This was a good read today, and one I needed; thanks to @mithriltabby for the link.
A more charitable second reading suggests that the author is suggesting a recipocral tit-for-tat escalation (shunning for shunning) that could, presumably, span the gamut from social consequences to open warfare.
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I still think that, without formal methods of adjudication, this leads a to a dictatorship of the most hot-headed, where perceived slights, real or imaginary, spiral out of control.
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the energetic costs of internecine conflict would seem to indicate that the more successful societies would be the ones that don't indulge in such spirals -- the purity spirals that afflict <name your favorite fringeish lefty community> certainly impede effective action.
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