There are lots of examples where the optimal state has some kind of consistency property (eg, lack of hypocrisy). It’s probably always possible to use the failure of consistency of the current state to improve, but I think that there are lots of examples where naively trying to improve consistency makes things worse, not better.
You seem to be conflating “a general force that, globally, naively improves consistency is good” with “in every particular case, naively improving consistency is good”. Obviously a global force is going to have benefits and drawbacks in different places, the question is whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
Do we want a War on Hypocrisy?
There are lots of examples where the optimal state has some kind of consistency property (eg, lack of hypocrisy). It’s probably always possible to use the failure of consistency of the current state to improve, but I think that there are lots of examples where naively trying to improve consistency makes things worse, not better.
You seem to be conflating “a general force that, globally, naively improves consistency is good” with “in every particular case, naively improving consistency is good”. Obviously a global force is going to have benefits and drawbacks in different places, the question is whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.