Insofar as morality exists, it's the prisoner's dilemma. Don't defect on cooperators. What if deviance is bad tho.
We don't have to use Communist newspeak. What is defection when you're not inventing new words out of a terror of looking old? Betrayal. If I do something wrong, it's betrayal in one form or another. I explicitly or implicitly promised I was trustworthy for the purposes of contravening that trust.
All crimes are betrayal in one form or another.
And, if it's not betrayal, you're not doing anything wrong. This is important since if you think you're doing something wrong but do it anyway, you will take the karmic hit for what you attempted to do, even if you don't betray anyone in the slightest. You tell Karma you would do it if it were wrong, and Karma goes ahead and believes you.
In a declared war, nobody mistakenly thinks the enemy soldiers aren't going to shoot you. Murder refers legitimately to unjust slaying, and they knew you were coming. I can't murder enemy soldiers, no matter how hard or smart I try.
If you walk into a police station, or an immigration office, and announce your intent to rob everyone you can, you will get the opportunity to rob nobody. You can make this all complicated and realistic, but it ends up with exactly the same logic. If burglary becomes normal, houses will become fortresses, and burglary will become abnormal. As such, living in a soyciety is implicitly a promise not to commit crimes on your fellow soyvilians. If you commit a crime, it works because they weren't expecting it, and it's a betrayal.
Curiously, this also means most things which aren't outlawed really aren't crimes, no matter how heinous. They could have outlawed it. Especially in Fascist police states such as america. It's not like they're shy about writing new laws. Their lack of defence constitutes implicit consent. This is important since most soyvilians aren't cooperators and it's important to have weapons with which to fight them off. Merely ensure you don't accidentally imply they should trust you unless they falsely do so first.
P.S. A 4chan poster once said to me, "can't tell [...] or metal gear villain." I think it was supposed to be an insult.
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>"In a declared war, nobody mistakenly thinks the enemy soldiers aren't going to shoot you. Murder refers legitimately to unjust slaying, and they knew you were coming."
>all wars are now undeclared
>all wars are now illegal
>all governments run on one world one people one race the human race
>all governments run on "no one could have seen this coming"
pottery
uhhh more formally i believe this is proof by contradiction? only it's already happened
Hobbes wrote, "leviathan prevents the war of all against all" and leviathan was all like, "Shit who wants to prevent that? I bet we could do both." Then they did.
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