can-we-design-a-society-nobody-would-disagree-with

inception: [[2022-08-16]] talked about grand human plans and societal designs where nobody could possibly disagree with it, and if they disagree, it’s not designed properly yet. all based around exit, contract and subsidiarity.

idea: high-level design a society of contracts, exit and subsidiarity whereby anyone who doesn’t like rule x can always opt out of that jurisdiction and into another jurisdiction without rule x or with the parameters for rule x altered such that they can tolerate it. or where rule x stays the same but there is another rule y that they’re so happy about that they’ll take the trade-off for rule x.

if any participant in the system isn’t fully satisfied, they can either:

  • leave altogether
  • create a new jurisdiction that perfectly fits their desires

only default global rule (which may be locally overridden) is: you cannot infringe on another jurisdiction’s choices. no harm-externalizing allowed. no invasions allowed, etc. if you must be violent either leave and go somewhere that doesn’t mind (see #1 above) or create a new jurisdiction in contract with another jurisdiction where both agree to violence only among themselves.

problem: if enough of these jurisdictions band together to create a violence supernode, how do the others avoid that supernode coming for them without their permission? any force capable of binding that supernode is capable of - and likely tends towards - totalitarianism, either naturally or through subversive capture (potentially by the violence supernode or some other spycraft supernode.)


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#1