The Ottoman millet system remains one of the best ways to organize a genuinely plural society, arguably superior to the liberal solutionpic.twitter.com/1FPaI1vbGI
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The Ottoman millet system remains one of the best ways to organize a genuinely plural society, arguably superior to the liberal solutionpic.twitter.com/1FPaI1vbGI
You would like the religious authorities in whichever group I was born into to have absolute power over me and have a hierarchy of rights between different religious groups? As superior to liberal societies for pluralism???
Not the religious authorities. But we could have a “Red Corp” & a “Blue Corp” set up as “lifestyle corporations” with nation-wide reach & some delegated powers for contentious items: abortion, taxation, education, etc. Different laws for diff lifestyles, as opposed to geography.
That’s not pluralism. Multiple theocracies isn’t pluralism. How is this even complicated?
I said “NOT the religious authorities”. But there are tensions btw those who want abortion banned vs permitted, history taught straight or “White-triumphalist”, high vs low socialization, etc. - that don’t fall neatly on state borders, hence electoral (soon: violent) battles.
So, banning rights for subgroups that one is stuck in by virtue of birth or community is now a superior form of pluralism to one based on individual rights in liberal societies? I think a month in such a society in the wrong group would cure people of this absurd delusion.
No one would be banning rights. On the contrary: each person would choose a lifestyle, pay (some) tax to the lifestyle corp, get some services (healthcare, education) from the corp & be subject to their laws (abortion, marijuana, etc). Some things (defense, roads) stay federal.
Ah, great, so people get to switch jurisprudence at will? Husband gets bored of wife, switches to bigamy jurisprudence, borrower decides to switch to usury is not allowed. Opportunists set up "everything goes" jurisprudences as they want. Excellent pluralism.
Details for switching lifestyle would need to be worked out, including paying back dues, etc. But we already have 50 state legislations + one federal, & we are managing. Vice-versa: why would living in TX determine whether a woman has repro rights? How does that make sense?
Federalism has tensions but unlike the millet system, it is subject to *elections* at the federal and state level, and is superseded by the national law and institutions, both of which make it nothing like the millet system. How is this not obvious?
The millet system was Bruno’s example. We’ve come a long way since Ottomans. Organizing jurisdictions by territory was probably the only practical way before computers. We can build more sophisticated societies now. Territorial jurisdictions don’t make sense in globalization age.
What do we do when a person from blue corp wants to marry someone from red corp? Or kills them? Or has a land dispute? A reason why territorially-defined jurisdictions is useful is because most of life takes place in realspace.
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