man i feel like the way our criminal justice system works is trying to direct the part of our brain that used to think about Enemy Tribe towards criminals and therefore completely borked our ability to think about morality
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RT @pawnofcthulhu
@xphilosopher seems to me social punishment is much more likely to serve some other purpose (community is audience and this helps the community understand a norm/prevent future harm from this …
https://twitter.com/pawnofcthulhu/status/1627067582531633152
now we get arguments about "are people who commit crimes Same Tribe or Enemy Tribe" instead of like actual practicalities
(also "are people who have X opinion Same Tribe or Enemy Tribe")
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
etc.etc.