Slander

Picanha96·12/11/2016, 2:49:15 PM·3 votes·1,625 views

Calling Social Costs Witch-Hunting is slander. Information encourages pro-social behavior.

No one is willingly just, but only when compelled to be so. (Plato, The republic 360c-d) “Identifiable Victim” effect (Schelling 1968).

http://www.ohio.edu/people/paxton/WebPage/altruism/anonymity.pdf “When people make decisions in public, they face social sanctions that increase the benefits to pro-social behavior and decrease the payoffs to anti-social behavior. To the extent that 50–50 splits are deemed to be a social norm or a fair outcome, even selfish humans are more likely to act fairly when in public.” (p.141)

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PlsTouchMeGently12/11/2016, 3:05:11 PM2 votes

Well obviously everything in modern society should be based on Plato's vision of The Republic. Or why don't we just go all the way and jump into Machiavelli's wonderful ideas in The Prince? :-D

Go back to your undergrad philosophy class and join us in the real world when you're ready.

EvilDustMan12/11/2016, 3:06:48 PM1 votes

Posting quotes doesn't help. Hypothesis, please.