—“Can you relate in-group vs out-group to morality = reciprocity ?”—Scott Claremont

Morality = Rules of cooperation

INGROUP VS OUTGROUP

  1. Ingroup,

  2. outgroup

… a. outgroup trade,

… b. outgroup boycott,

… c. outgroup competitor,

… d. outgroup parasite

… e. outgroup predator

Ingroup by definition = cooperation (moral)

Ingroup always requires reciprocity.

Ingroup oten requires investment (risk)

Ingroup often requires insurance

Ingroup may require subsidy.

Outgroup by definition only requires utility.

Outgroup may or may not require reciprocity

Outgroup does not require investment (risk)

Outgroup does not demand insurance

Outgroup does not require subsidy.

Outgroup non-cooperation is dis-utilitarian

Outgroup non-cooperation does not require reciprocity

Outgroup non-cooperation does not require investment

Outgroup non-cooperation does not require insurance

Outgroup non-cooperation does not require subsidy

Outgroup enemy is harmful

Outgroup enemy requires irreciprocity

Outgroup enemy requires costs to impose costs

Outgroup enemy requires destruction of their insurance

Outgroup enemy requires destruction of their subsidies

Lesson: you can’t use one rule for scale.

Humans are monkeys that want to imitate or follow a single pre-cognitive intuitions rather than think (remember or reason).

But spectra require disambiguation and thought.

There are no points(ideal types) only lines (spectra).