GROUP: LOYALTY AND BETRAYAL
The central problem for any group, of any size, is to maximize all opportunities with positive externalities (loyalty) without tolerating the taking of opportunities with negative externalities (defection). Loyalty matters. There is always a limit to opportunism – in everything: trade, marriage, mating. And this is what corporatism licenses: defection (betrayal). Low trust peoples profit best when they can live among high trust peoples and exploit the difficulty of measuring betrayals through moral hazard internally, and defection and betrayal externally. Liberty, free trade, globalism. These are all terms for licensing betrayal. And maybe that is surprising. These three words propose moral falsehoods in order to betray the group. Rule of Law by Natural Law with Full Accounting leads to the same conditions as liberty, free trade, and globalism, but it forbids negative externalities against the group no matter how small. The question has never been what form of government do we need in order to construct a condition free of impositions upon us by others. That form of government is Nomocracy: Rule of Law under Natural Law. Every other form of government is just some other method of condoning one form of betrayal of the group or another.
Source date (UTC): 2017-06-18 13:00:00 UTC