I did an interesting project in uni on whether the state can exist without violence. I discovered there are many tribal communities without violence or prisoners. They use public shaming instead. The problem is scaling this to a large enough scale of modern states.
The other problem is sociopaths and psychopaths. It seems clear that at least in the US, some leaders are severed mentally imbalanced, which means they feel no shame. Without shame, public shaming is meaningless.
That was a problem extremism researchers identified a while back. Earlier in the piece it was easy to get neo-nazis to put a plug in it by just making it clear that if you do nazi shit, that nazi shit will follow your reputation around. But at a certain point, if that nazi shit becomes acceptable, one cant rely on “You’ll be exposed and shunned” as a disincentive, if said neo-nazi is marching around in the street without hiding their names or trying to protect their identities. It means they fully embrace the nazi thing and want people around them to know that.
I did an interesting project in uni on whether the state can exist without violence. I discovered there are many tribal communities without violence or prisoners. They use public shaming instead. The problem is scaling this to a large enough scale of modern states.
The other problem is sociopaths and psychopaths. It seems clear that at least in the US, some leaders are severed mentally imbalanced, which means they feel no shame. Without shame, public shaming is meaningless.
That was a problem extremism researchers identified a while back. Earlier in the piece it was easy to get neo-nazis to put a plug in it by just making it clear that if you do nazi shit, that nazi shit will follow your reputation around. But at a certain point, if that nazi shit becomes acceptable, one cant rely on “You’ll be exposed and shunned” as a disincentive, if said neo-nazi is marching around in the street without hiding their names or trying to protect their identities. It means they fully embrace the nazi thing and want people around them to know that.