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Blind trust in a centralized authority is by no means necessary. You can for example just not put blind trust in other people, and teach your children to unders
by pigeonhole123 3y ago
Blind trust in a centralized authority is by no means necessary. You can for example just not put blind trust in other people, and teach your children to understand other people's lack of aligned incentives. A free-for-all is called free speech and freedom of association, where people are responsible for their own choices. You are responsible in the end anyway, since none of these central authorities will be there for you when they fuck up.
- dale_glass 3y ago> Blind trust in a centralized authority is by no means necessary. Definitely not blind. The trust has to be earned, and there has to be oversight. > You can for example just not put blind trust in other people, and teach your children to understand other people's lack of aligned incentives. A free-for-all is called free speech and freedom of association, where people are responsible for their own choices. You are responsible in the end anyway, since none of these central authorities will be there for you when they fuck up. I don't think this is viable long-term. I see it as a defect, in some measure. You can't be an expert on computers, and engineering, and food safety, and economics, and health. Each of those subjects is completely gigantic in modern times, and we can't expect the population at large to figure out how to tell which restaurant will poison them. Those are valuable skills, but IMO in society at large they're at best a contingency measure. We specialized for a reason, and that means that all of us will have huge holes in our knowledge somewhere.
- Haga 3y ago[dead]