Ask HN: What are some things we don't talk about, but should?

3 points·desertraven··6 comments

How corrupt ordinary people are.

Everyone is always ready to flair up at the government, when these are only ephemeral bodies of individuals.

Humans are corruptible with treacherous hearts.

The government couldn’t really do enough to protect us from each other, yet through the veil of modern civility we have little foreboding of one and other and such a suspicion for the body of governance made in our own image.

Every system decays into corruption (any kind). It's just a definition of humanity and the sooner you get it the faster you'll extract happiness from all this chaos.

I disagree. Stable systems are not corrupt. Look at nature.

Corruption comes by parasites and perversion. In humanity’s case a power (and off hand willingness) to harm greater than accountability.

Comfort, convenience, complicity fine, yet draw the line at collusion or negligence.

> Look at nature

> parasites

I sense contradiction. You literally used an example of an evolutionary strategy found in nature (parasitism) to somehow support your theory that nature is not corrupt.

I said systems which are stable are not corrupt, as found in abundance in nature, not that nature does not include examples of what happens when a system becomes corrupt.

Population density breeds disease and parasites (of the biological kind.)

Population out of balance with resources is a systemic corruption that living strategies resolve dynamically through time.

I think this is a very pure and cynical view to take to humanity. We’re a whole lot more than systems and equations. I get this is hacker news but this surely is a result of your own personal view which is valid but ultimately yours? Thus not answering the question. Or have I jumped the gun a bit?

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