I think our hangup with trying to figure out if negative outcomes are rooted in what someone knows/doesn’t know, versus what someone’s subjective, internal motivations are, is a false dichotomy and a useless mental exercise when we can treat it all the same way for better outcomes. I am more concerned with material reality than what’s going on in someone’s head. It’s not like we can throw the average asshole or moron into school or an education camp and “fix” them. The only way we fight negative outcomes in a society broadly is to create strong disincentives for anti-social or anti-community behavior. Shame, punishment, public humiliation, and in worst cases incarceration or expulsion.
This forces the dumb and evil alike, if there is even a difference in most cases, to think before acting and make choices that won’t end up with them in the ol’ stockade having rotting vegetables thrown at their face.
Dumb is evil and evil is dumb. Not all dumb people are evil, but all evil people do things against the interest of society or even themselves, which is “dumb” according to the rest of society. Lets normalize moving past this argument entirely and dealing with universally accepted consequences for doing bad things. We have to stop giving stupid people some kind of pass for pulling our society apart at the seams.
I think our hangup with trying to figure out if negative outcomes are rooted in what someone knows/doesn’t know, versus what someone’s subjective, internal motivations are, is a false dichotomy and a useless mental exercise when we can treat it all the same way for better outcomes. I am more concerned with material reality than what’s going on in someone’s head. It’s not like we can throw the average asshole or moron into school or an education camp and “fix” them. The only way we fight negative outcomes in a society broadly is to create strong disincentives for anti-social or anti-community behavior. Shame, punishment, public humiliation, and in worst cases incarceration or expulsion.
This forces the dumb and evil alike, if there is even a difference in most cases, to think before acting and make choices that won’t end up with them in the ol’ stockade having rotting vegetables thrown at their face.
Dumb is evil and evil is dumb. Not all dumb people are evil, but all evil people do things against the interest of society or even themselves, which is “dumb” according to the rest of society. Lets normalize moving past this argument entirely and dealing with universally accepted consequences for doing bad things. We have to stop giving stupid people some kind of pass for pulling our society apart at the seams.