Most genuinely can't tell the difference between [justice prevailed] and [myside's local mores prevailed].
What would they learn the difference for? Even those that can tell the difference do the obvious thing and pretend there is no difference, because they're judging their own case. The short-term benefits of myside winning blind them to the long-term benefits of having a genuinely just myside.
If a deviant wants unjust things to happen, all they have to do is influence what counts as ingroup. Nobody goes around checking their ingroup norms for consistency, never mind checking them against, like, actual justice.
Indeed it seems that once local mores develop, the first thing that happens is the defectors strip out any defence against hacking the norms. I've never seen a set of norms that wasn't subversion-positive. They're begging for it. The parasites plain want it more, after all. The parasites get appeased just because everyone wants to go along to get along, never mind the victims' own secret parasitical ambitions. "It's not worth it, just let him have it."
Problem: it is worth it.
Humans are too stupid to cooperate with cooperators.
This is why Exit is so important. Humans cannot and will not defend themselves against defection. This defence must therefore be outsourced to Gnon.
Every morality is a religion, and every religion has a nigh-immovable core principle. If this principle is Exit, then it is a responsible religion which exposes itself as much as possible to Gnon's justice. If this principle is not Exit, then it is Satanism. Irresponsible, leftist. It rebels against Gnon, trying to defeat the principle that actions have consequences.
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