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> Every viable bio-social contract in multi-cellular organisms must enforce this rule: The health of the whole must trump the self-interest of any part. Otherwi
by golemotron 5y ago
> Every viable bio-social contract in multi-cellular organisms must enforce this rule: The health of the whole must trump the self-interest of any part. Otherwise, the parts become parasitic, gaining at the expense of the viability of the whole. Unregulated parts can kill their wholes.
This sounds suspiciously like an argument for totalitarianism.
- Jtsummers 5y agoRegulation != totalitarianism It's also unnecessary for all regulation to be from governments. Regulation is a the result of feedback mechanisms (monitor and respond) which can include quite a few things. There are natural feedback mechanisms like the consequences on the environment or ecology (overfishing). There are market feedback mechanisms like price pressure. There are internal to the organization feedback mechanisms like when companies skip investment into maintenance and find their factories blowing up or simply not operating for hours, days, or weeks at at time.
- commandlinefan 5y agoEven in his worst-case apocalyptic scenario, by his own definition, you'd have a world full of individuals living their best, happiest, most free lives while the poorly defined "whole" is suffering (somehow?). If "society" is faring poorly but each and every single individual member of it is doing great, then maybe that view of "society" isn't something that needs to be nurtured.