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> people And that’s key - if people can’t have consistency, a system of government never can. Therefore all governments have a nonzero chance of “evil” and sh
by flandish 4y ago
> people
And that’s key - if people can’t have consistency, a system of government never can.
Therefore all governments have a nonzero chance of “evil” and should be, at all levels, distrusted and where appropriate, dismantled.
- drewcoo 4y ago> if people can’t have consistency, a system of government never can There's this concept called "emergence" that doesn't agree with that reasoning.
- flandish 4y agoLink?
- wahern 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence > In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when an entity is observed to have properties its parts do not have on their own, properties or behaviors that emerge only when the parts interact in a wider whole. It's sort of a corollary[1] to the Fallacy of Composition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition [1] There's probably a better word here; emergence isn't necessarily true given the fallacy of composition.
- flandish 4y agoThanks!