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> and then anyone anomalous is being auto background-checked when showing up in a new area. That is the historical norm. Is it supposed to be a new concept?
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> and then anyone anomalous is being auto background-checked when showing up in a new area.
That is the historical norm. Is it supposed to be a new concept?
- pixl97 1y agoI mean, slavery is a historical norm. I'd rather not have it back.
- ethbr1 1y agoWhen has that ever been the historical norm? Even the most closed societies (say, East Germany, the USSR, and the DPRK) only accomplished a fraction of what's now technically possible, and that historical analogue through a massive human labor force.
- thaumasiotes 1y agoIt's been the historical norm for all of time, except the extremely recent past. The norm is that you're born somewhere and you stay there forever. Everyone there knows you and they've known you since you, or they, were born. If a traveler happens to show up, everyone can recognize immediately, by looking at their face, that they're from somewhere else. Strangers get low levels of trust.