Intolerance, pub tests, and government by squeaky wheel
2018-12-17 — 2022-07-26
Wherein headline risk and the Australian pub test are allowed to govern public policy, procedural rituals are adopted to avoid photogenic offence, and the most intolerant are thereby empowered to dictate responses.
Headline risk as a driver of bureaucracy.
In Australia we refer to actions that will offend no one photogenic as “passing the pub test”.
Nassim Taleb, The most intolerant wins
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics:
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it. At the very least, you are to blame for not doing more. Even if you don’t make the problem worse, even if you make it slightly better, the ethical burden of the problem falls on you as soon as you observe it. In particular, if you interact with a problem and benefit from it, you are a complete monster.
Pahlka on government proceduralism (Bagley 2023; Pahlka 2023)
Connection to messenger shooting.