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This just shows that people naturally gravitate toward a system of social harmony and the rule of law, as it lets you reasonably adjust your behavior, as the ex

by papito 5y ago

This just shows that people naturally gravitate toward a system of social harmony and the rule of law, as it lets you reasonably adjust your behavior, as the expectations are formalized, and everyone else is assumed to be abiding by them. The irony is that real world is increasingly moving away from that, toward the "everyone for themselves, nothing matters" chaos.

justicezyx 5y ago
Words are thoughts. Thoughts are mental processes. Be careful with treating similarity in appearance with equivalence in substance. > social harmony and the rule of law The association between the story and social harmony seems plausible, but actually superficial. Social harmony would be that people involuntarily work together without an authority, and reached mutual agreement on their dispute. To me, it is a sign of social conflicts that dark web actors need arbitration. Although that by itself matches our impression that dark web actors are lawless individuals should be punished. More ironically, the story actually shows that they are not lawless in the absolute sense. They just breakd the laws majority of the society abides by (or the majority actually do not even realize exits). > rule of law You know, rule of law is more of a political term nowadays. It refers to a western style of political organization framework centered on written laws and a voting process to revising them, and many other subtle details. Is arbitration on darkweb an example of rule by law? I tend to say no. Arbiter is necessary in all steps, and they seem are not codifying their "laws" for dealing with the future occrance of similar litigation at all.
- papito 5y ago
  Well, obviously, this is almost a metaphor, as it's a stretch to literally apply the term Rule of Law to something as sketchy as the dark web. Also, note that I did not use something like "Law and Order", as that can have a pretty unpleasant meaning.
lallysingh 5y ago
> The irony is that real world is increasingly moving away from that, toward the "everyone for themselves, nothing matters" chaos. People have been saying that for hundreds of years. We tend to romanticize the past.

by papito 5y ago

justicezyx 5y ago

Words are thoughts. Thoughts are mental processes. Be careful with treating similarity in appearance with equivalence in substance. > social harmony and the rule of law The association between the story and social harmony seems plausible, but actually superficial. Social harmony would be that people involuntarily work together without an authority, and reached mutual agreement on their dispute. To me, it is a sign of social conflicts that dark web actors need arbitration. Although that by itself matches our impression that dark web actors are lawless individuals should be punished. More ironically, the story actually shows that they are not lawless in the absolute sense. They just breakd the laws majority of the society abides by (or the majority actually do not even realize exits). > rule of law You know, rule of law is more of a political term nowadays. It refers to a western style of political organization framework centered on written laws and a voting process to revising them, and many other subtle details. Is arbitration on darkweb an example of rule by law? I tend to say no. Arbiter is necessary in all steps, and they seem are not codifying their "laws" for dealing with the future occrance of similar litigation at all.

papito 5y ago
Well, obviously, this is almost a metaphor, as it's a stretch to literally apply the term Rule of Law to something as sketchy as the dark web. Also, note that I did not use something like "Law and Order", as that can have a pretty unpleasant meaning.

lallysingh 5y ago

> The irony is that real world is increasingly moving away from that, toward the "everyone for themselves, nothing matters" chaos. People have been saying that for hundreds of years. We tend to romanticize the past.