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The problem with norms: bad actors don't care about them. Norms and regulation/law can work together. Either alone are insufficient, I think. Strong internat
by SmirkingRevenge 7y ago
The problem with norms: bad actors don't care about them.
Norms and regulation/law can work together. Either alone are insufficient, I think.
Strong international norms and regulations are probably needed as well. As we clean up our domestic affairs, we create more space for hostile state actors to fill.
- jdironman 7y agoIt seems then, that it starts with the infrastructure / process. If the infrastructure supports abuse freely, it will be abused. There will always those who try to find a way regardless..
- ticmasta 7y ago>> The problem with norms: bad actors don't care about them. This is a very important observation. The world most of us want is one influenced by norms we work together to define & change over time. Some see this as an opportunity to exploit for personal gain and we eventually get imperfect regulation that tries to reflect what we originally intended, or worse, is enacted by the same bad actors to coerce the bad behaviours we resisted in the first place. I see this all the time in growing companies: 1. culture dictates expected behaviour 2. company grows 3. culture weakens 4. norms get violated (intentionally or not) 5. process gets decreed to address transgressions 6. everyone looses the shared benefit/responsibility of autonomy 7. GOTO 1