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Society is the process of solving prisoner's dilemmas

submitted by FuckShitJesus to whatever 8 hoursMay 1, 2025 07:02:03 ago (+8/-0)     (whatever)

When you don't punish defectors, you get more defectors, and the cooperators feel like suckers so they start to defect.

When everyone is a criminal, no one is a criminal.


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And switched to the idea people are just randomly occurring organic robots, aka things.

That's the philosophy of psychopaths, it's in part why Jeffery Dahmer ate people-things.

All based upon the unprovable? That's how society goes wrong.

And most people don't really believe that people are just things.