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Parent seems to hold individual liberty among the highest priority values. IMHO, it'd be an uphill battle to argue it should rank lower.
by ethbr0 5y ago
Parent seems to hold individual liberty among the highest priority values.
IMHO, it'd be an uphill battle to argue it should rank lower.
- dotancohen 5y ago> Parent seems to hold individual liberty among the highest priority values. I could imagine that the collective progression of society would rank higher than individual liberty in some societies. Especially in populations with serious threats to existence. Think of the Yadizi today - they've had their women stolen and their men killed for a decade. They are nearing the threshold were they will not have a diverse enough gene pool to avert their eradication. In such a society, I could imagine that adultery (potentially confusing which child belongs to which lineage of genes) and homosexuality (reducing the pool of available genes) might be dissuaded on punishment of death.