If it were normal for humans to punish criminals, then the legal system would be redundant.
Because the legal system exists we can be certain it's normal for humans to reward criminals. Which makes sense: the human social status system lionizes defection and deprecates cooperation. E.g, who has more prestige, Genghis Khan, or Elon Musk? Do you respect someone who kills everyone he knows and dooms his country to be a permanent backwater, or someone who might well create the first Mars colony? Destruction >> creation. Christians kept the old testament because Yeshua doesn't kill anyone and that plain won't fly.
States punish (some) crimes solely because the livestock is worth more if they don't keep taking chunks out of each others' hides.
As such, [social consequences] is always a pro-crime force. If you see someone using this phrase, check your wallet, because that's what they're after.
Secular humanists can be safely predicted to be criminal purely from the name.
Elon Musk will not create a Mars colony, though that's largely not his fault. America will drag him down into the sewage ditch, with everyone else, no matter what he tries. Cheaper satellites are fine, because they already exist. Anything that doesn't already exist will be verboten.
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Nice. Some notes:
Seeking status is wrong. That being so, there is warranted status, which if you are denied, you can fight for (You can also fight for the removal of unwarranted status within the context of a legal system).
> E.g, who has more prestige, Genghis Khan, or Elon Musk? Do you respect someone who kills
> everyone he knows and dooms his country to be a permanent backwater, or someone who might
> well create the first Mars colony?
Good point. Empirically, most of the status in the world is unwarranted.
"Justice is unnatural & inhuman" -> Abiding by rules and enforcing of rules is indeed outside the scope of normalcy, outside the scope of equilibrium.
That's a good point. Although usually status is inherently criminal, it isn't wholly so.
By accident or through some of the less-diseased branches of the prestige dynamic, someone who genuinely deserves respect can gain respect.
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