ARE HUMANS ALIKE? 1) The Wise make arguments to incentives and institutions 2) T

ARE HUMANS ALIKE?

1) The Wise make arguments to incentives and institutions

2) The Fools make arguments to law and government

3) The Youth make arguments to morality and shame

4) The Children make arguments to approval and disapproval.

1) we are alike ‘enough’ or we could not empathize.

2) we are alike ‘enough in empathy that we can cooperate

3) we are alike ‘enough’ that we can cooperate on means if not ends.

4) we are unlike ‘enough’ to choose not to cooperate on means or ends.

5) we are unlike ‘enough’ to conflict in ethics and politics

6) we are unlike ‘enough’ that we war nearly constantly.

7) we are unlike ‘enough’ to engage in culture-cide, and genocide.

AFAIK,

(a) median intelligence is proxy for neoteny (domestication) but not

morality, and;

(b) median intelligence determines demand for habits, norms, traditions and institutions, and ;

(c) norms, traditions, and institutions determine the degree of trust that is possible even if unachieved, and;

(d) the degree of trust determines the productivity of a polity relative to its competitors.

Therefore

(e) the standard of any polity is determined not by its best but by the size of its worst. In other words, the only way to improve a polity is the reduction of the scale of the underclasses.

MARKET LIMIT

The limit to all markets from commercial to reproduction to association, is whenever the benefit to the self, even in fully informed, productive, voluntary exchange, produces externalities that impose costs upon the retained capital (in all forms) of others.

Ergo, there is a limit to free trade, and a limit to free association before one is merely profiting from the imposition of costs upon others while claiming one is virtuous.