Human beings are neither Hobbesian, Lockean, or Rousseauian, but amoral. All evidence from all history, all history of legal proceedings, and all scientific research, demonstrates man is amoral and only as moral as he must be, and maximizes immorality whenever he can justify it.
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@BobMurphyEcon BOB (all), Why is Bob, and his criticism of mainstream pseudoscience (mathiness, logic) less influential than we’d expect? Because no criminal gives up his crimes, nor immoralist his immorality, nor liar his lies, nor parasite its host without greater incentive to do so than not.
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