As for the traits being selected, we obviously don’t know, though the idea is that selecting for homosexuality gifts the selectors an obvious manner of control of whomever makes it into the college of cardinals.
I don’t know what you have in mind there. If they’re 80% gay, they can hardly threaten each other with exposure. At the most, the accusation would be a smokescreen, transparent to all the insiders, for those who already have the power to dispose of an enemy. Cf. the exclusion of Marine Le Pen from standing for President of France, on the grounds of an “embezzlement” which it appears that every party freely engages in.
I don’t know what you have in mind there. If they’re 80% gay, they can hardly threaten each other with exposure. At the most, the accusation would be a smokescreen, transparent to all the insiders, for those who already have the power to dispose of an enemy. Cf. the exclusion of Marine Le Pen from standing for President of France, on the grounds of an “embezzlement” which it appears that every party freely engages in.
Maybe my next substack post will be trying to analyze how the
exposeequilibrium changes as a function of thepercent_gayparameter.