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Re: the commons

Posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2013, at 5:10:22

In reply to Re: the commons, posted by alexandra_k on September 20, 2013, at 4:23:36

oh.

policing is costly.

it takes time and effort to punish defectors - and one runs the risk of the defector retaliating.

i guess that is what can be nice about having a leader. someone else to bear the cost of punishment.

i have only recently come around to viewing failing to punish defectors as itself being a kind of defecting.

i think that sometimes that is what people mean when they tell me to 'stand up'. i think that oftentimes people do attempt to take advantage of me to test my limits... how much i will let them get away with and then what i will do. am i the kind of person who punishes appropriately or am i the kind of person who lashes out? that is valuable information to know about a person...

i shock people because when people test me... my response is to opt out. i... lack the... emotional control. to meet out appropriate punishment.

i think.

i am not a leader. not that kind of leader. i don't know.

of course i do know that someone has got to do it.

probably.

i guess libertarians or whatever focus on ways in which cultures / peoples have solved tragedy of the commons situations appropriately.

i think we need to look to anthropology and consider the cases. i'd be interested to consider some of the best cases from anthropology for different sorts of solutions to tragedy of commons situations / different forms of governments...

 

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