Social Justice & Mental Models

Social justice & mental models : "X treats each Y with the same amount of effort", clearly does not imply, "each Y feels the same as each other Y". In fact, the latter phenomena, is the reason why the former policy is enacted for risk management.

angerless life, may be an angering notion

I was thinking about people who get angry on a regular basis. I think, anger becomes a part of their identity. So, the notion that it is possible to live a life absent of anger for months or years, is not just foreign, but even offensive (angering) to them. Well, there it is, quite clearly, I suppose. Not fixable ... with consent.

Altruism and Robbery

At least 50% of the population normalises a belief, that you give certain people more privileges, to a degree that the receivers have some power to hurt the giver. On one hand, this trustful assumption provides good infrastructure for commerce ( visible or invisible ), and on the other hand, it depends on a mass of individuals to broadly compromise personal security. So altruism sets a stage for sudden robbery of the masses. It is legal - but whether it is ethical, depends on whom you ask.

I have friends in the altruistic camp who are often handing out bits of their security, and crying when they don't get it back. I am not sure how to counsel them, except that they should take fewer risks with themselves.

In the cases where one party loses security, but no party gains any, it probably counts as net value destruction for society.

Oh well, protocol wars abound.