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Your alignment: Lawful Neutral Your desire to organize society according to simple, elegant and absolute rules is understandable - it is in fact the quintessen
by thecrash 8y ago
Your alignment: Lawful Neutral
Your desire to organize society according to simple, elegant and absolute rules is understandable - it is in fact the quintessential engineer's mindset.
But society is not a microprocessor, or a factory, or even a neural net. It's far, far more complicated than any of those things, and can't be governed by the same approach.
This is why things like empathy, transgression, forgiveness, and rebellion exist within a society but not within a codebase. Trying to eliminate those things from a society is effectively trying to collapse the complexity: to dramatically simplify the system in order to make it possible to manage problems through absolute rules.
While this is an understandable approach to an engineering problem, I rather enjoy the beautiful complexity of society, and would hate to see you have your way with it.
- modells 8y agoNuance, thank you. Black & white thinking makes me suspect a person maybe either fresh off the turnip truck, tending towards dramatic narcissistic or never slept rough. The world is only easy and mertiocratic for the relatively rich. In real life, the very poor are put-upon, berated, judged, harassed, kicked and even murdered for the crime of being poor.