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But if humanity as a whole enforced social norms that rewarded blackmail-refusals, then the value of blackmailing would drop so low as to be not worth it and ex

But if humanity as a whole enforced social norms that rewarded blackmail-refusals, then the value of blackmailing would drop so low as to be not worth it and extremely uncommon. Essentially we could develop a herd immunity to blackmail.

eggpy 8y ago
Yeah but scandal attracts eyeballs and people are more interested in spectacle than choosing the morally superior option
jackfrodo 8y ago
I think the consequences of blackmail are inherent in it. All this is is getting in front of the story
TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
The solutions to a great majority of the issues facing us begin with: But if humanity as a whole... As far as I’ve been able to determine, much to my chagrin, in many of the ways that matter most, humanity isn’t a coherent whole. And I’ve got no idea what to do about it.
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