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Society and laws are constructs, and we constructed them to be this way. We do not need to restart from zero to fix things. People do those things because the
by naikrovek 6y ago
Society and laws are constructs, and we constructed them to be this way. We do not need to restart from zero to fix things.
People do those things because the pressure to avoid doing those things is far too weak, and the pressure to be a good person is one of the things that society should provide.
- generalizations 6y agoOk, but that pressure is brought to bear from somewhere. If there's people who are given the power to apply that pressure, then that power is now something people can amass. I don't know how you're imagining that society can provide that pressure without also giving ambitous people a way to collect power.