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We're seeing a lot of this in modern society. Social media, guns, politics . . . lots of areas where individual bad actors are overturning "social construction
by psunavy03 3y ago
We're seeing a lot of this in modern society. Social media, guns, politics . . . lots of areas where individual bad actors are overturning "social construction," norms, and trust because they can. Not realizing that a lot of those norms they're pissing all over are vital to having any kind of a society worth living in, which is why seeing them brazenly violated freaks a lot of people TF out. I don't want to live in the ultimate low-trust society because it seems it'd suck for any number of crappy reasons.
- lawrenceyan 3y agoWhy not have systems be as resilient and robust as possible though? For example, with the implementation of crypto, now you can massively lower trust necessary for finance to function. That doesn't mean we purposely try to lower trust. But in the rare event it happens, I feel like it's a good safeguard. Strong foundations in many ways can often enable greater trust too I think.
- zirgs 3y agoWhy are you talking about cryptocurrency as if it was a new technology? It's 15 years old now and it's already pretty clear that it's not very useful for ordinary people.
- sdeframond 3y ago> Why not have systems be as resilient and robust as possible though? Because walking around wearing medieval armors to protect from strangers randomly "punching, kicking, throwing a rock at another" would be so annoying.