The tension between personal benefits and social benefits, of the individual scope and the wide scope, is often found under the umbrella of morality. There is no such thing as universal mores, so that's an issue. This issue can and should be solved individually, and I will now explain in exhaustive detail. Keep in mind that, as it turns out, making it non-moral and just fixing it solves all supposed problems found under the [morality] umbrella.
The tension between personal benefits and social benefits should be decided by making society benefit the person, and as such upholding society is always the best personal move. The tension is fake and γαι, more on that later.
Bitcoin doesn't fix it, but a simple contract does. Society agrees to provide benefits to the member, according to their individual preferences and costs thereof, and in exchange the member agrees to provide benefits to society so that society is capable of maintaining and increasing its benefits.
The member agrees not to harm society's ability to provide him with benefits because he can't gain more from such harm than he loses in the benefits.
The member agrees to let the society use force to stop him if he contravenes his stated word.*
Society agrees to pay its debts and to forgo enforcement on the member if it is found to have failed to provide the benefits, or to have applied unagreed costs.
They agree on a method of determining when the contract is breached, which is isomorphic to deciding the exact terms of the contract.
*Which is why 98% women don't go well with contracts, and can't be full members of society. If you try to use stated words like this, enforcement costs will exceed the benefits of the contract. Unprofitable. She should be a member of a family which deals with society on her behalf and likewise deals with the foid on behalf of society.
It's hard to tell through all the modern degeneracy, but perhaps enforcing the given word of a male peasant is also more expensive than any benefits society can receive from the peasant. Like women, the peasantry has to be held in conservatorship, though in this case by a lord rather than by a family.
In each case, rather than agreeing not to cause harm, the livestock in question has to be physically prevented from having the opportunity to cause harm to society. If this can't be cost-effectively done, then they are wild and go in the wilderness, not in the city.
If you can't marry a woman you can't rape her either - not part of society, these roles don't apply. On the topic of exceptions, perhaps 1% of women don't have to be held in
conservatorship; rare but not vanishingly so, and it's feasible to test
for this in advance.
Notice that this contract is not a phd dissertation. You don't have to be a world-historical genius giant astride the world to think of this. In part this is why I can speak abstractly. I don't need to specify an engineering blueprint for arbitration, because you can competently figure that out for yourself. Difficulty: average adult level. The difficulty of the idea is not what prevents anyone from using it.
What's hard about this is in fact that's it's so obvious, that it really
is like explaining that the sun rises in the morning. The challenge is
having it occur to you to try at all. No really, imagine that vividly;
you're having an issue with a subordinate at work, or a contractor, and
it turns out the root problem is that they don't know the sun rising
makes it morning. How long does it take until it occurs to you to
explain that the sun rising makes it morning?
The contract is not used because mortals make soycieties, not societies, and the point of those is to harm their members for the benefit of other members who claim to benefit on behalf of soyciety. Collectivism. Often, causing harm and getting away with it is the whole benefit in question; just in case you thought soyciety had any shred of legitimacy.
Anyone who doesn't want to solve the tension of person with society by
making society benefit the person is obviously trying to benefit a person, themselves, at your expense. Fake and γαι. They are a criminal, and they go in the stocks.
Empires fall because they are soyvilizations. The purpose of soyvilization is self-mutilation, it works as intended, thus soyciety dies.
Having done malice, let's also do stupidity.
The usual method of philosophical morality is a weird combination of bottom-up and top-down, where they try to apply morality top-down by deriving it bottom-up from principles.
We already know what we want from society. Benefits in exchange for service. It's a lot easier to test a prototype for errors rather than attempting an exhaustive search of all possible moralities. Turns out there aren't any errors, you can just do the obvious thing. Sign a contract with society's representative such that you're promised benefits in exchange for services, and apply a reasonable arbitration and enforcement mechanism. That's it.
I feel it's important to repeat that it's ungrateful for society to provide no benefits. Being a member should profit the member. If society doesn't value you, there is no reason for you to value society, or more precisely there is no reason for you to value your contribution to society if society itself doesn't. Go ahead and believe it. Don't spend stuff to no benefit, even beyond not cooperating with defectors. Society should express its value of you in cold hard cash, because it's sufficiently difficult to fake that signal. Taxes are soyciety, the exact opposite of how a society functions. You should be charging society rent for the privilege of your membership.
I charge soyciety rent too, but you can always con a dishonest man; its illegitimacy means it can't enforce any demand for benefits in return. Its attempt at parasitism makes it vulnerable to parasitism. The only downside is that eating soyciety means eating soy. It's a food, that's what it's for, but on the other hand it's soy.
There is no reason the individual benefits of the individual members can't be individualized, except cost constraints. And logical coherence, which applies to everything. Some benefits cost society more than the individual can or is willing to provide in return. Next you can't value costs not being costly, or value receiving more from
society than you can afford. Meta-values are generally invalid, due to the series
failing to converge.
Within reason, everyone can have their own idiosyncratic social contract.
More importantly, this is Freedom. !!Freedom!! even. Any reasonable arrangement of values is compatible with this social contract.
Insofar as being individualistic is costly, then perhaps some conformity is accepted for higher reverse-taxes. It depends entirely on what the individual wants, how much they want it, and how much they can pay society for the privileges. The contract can be re-negotiated, again subject to transaction costs, but when it's valuable it can be done.
Because it can be re-negotiated, I don't have to work out arbitration and enforcement from first principles. If something isn't working, try something different. Can simply use known solutions until a problem is found with them through praxis. Can use new ideas whenever and to whatever extent is reasonable. In short, your security doesn't have to be my business, the business of theoreticians. !!Freedom!! Likewise anyone who chooses wrong doesn't damage my business. He has to take responsibility himself.
In some cases power and flexibility have no tradeoff, no conflict. In the case of the social contract, not only can you maximize both, increasing one increases the other.
All enforcement is what the individual finds reasonable. Or they don't sign; they don't sworn to contribute to society.
Enforcement on those outside society is highly contaminated by [[collectivism]]. If you think about what they want at all, with the exception of offering them something to entice them to sign the social contract, you're getting scammed. They won't pay you for your regard; they don't value it. Giving them any regard is imagining value they don't have.
Treat outlaws like outlaws. Outlaws might be bipedal and featherless, maybe they can speak a language, but in spade language they're wild animals and should be treated like wild animals. Do whatever it takes to minimize the costs they impose on you. Force them to stay out, basically; pay the cost of a fence and you're good. The only correct place for an outlaw that's inside city boundaries is a zoo. Their complaints are as meaningful as a buzzing fly unless they're making a credible bid to sign the social contract and be subject to its rules.
For anyone confusing outlaws with other societies, note that societies should sign contracts with each other. What is valid diplomacy? What is invalid? How do passports work? What is an act of war? It says all this in the contract. Agreed to in advance.
Sadly mortals do not have reasonable arrangements of values, and can't form societies. Regardless of their ability to adhere to their given word, they will choose not to adhere to it; breaking their oaths is a common terminal goal for mortals. Soyciety only. They swear, that they might betray. Have to pick up some loyalties if you don't have any, or you can't betray them.
P.S. Get fucked all the way up your ass, plato. Get fucked until your brain is pulped from the bottom. Justice could eat feet first and you wouldn't know what hit you. "Why am I dead? What happened?" Get fucked except you would probably enjoy it. I suppose that technically means we both win. Soyciety is footnotes to plato, society is anti-plato. Soyciety is when plato is under-raped.
You may note that soycieties do try to mimic society in certain respects. There are, allegedly, rules about diplomacy. It always ends up startlingly corrupt. There's no explicit social contract because the owners of soyciety refuse to pay penalties for breaking their word. And soyciety members mindlessly let them. On the contrary, diplomacy rules are designed precisely to be subverted preferentially by one group instead of another. Result: catastrophic decay.
Moral of this story: don't be human. Discriminate against humanity. Humanity is why you can't have nice things. Help me find other anti-humans.
Alt: prove me wrong. Sign a social contract and form a society. Pwn me good, show me your gigantic reverse-tax bill.