I think a big problem we face in humanity is how we settle our disputes and it’s a large function of a government. But, after enough time people figure out the “rules” and get their own refs or figure out loopholes.
Fight to the death? Well not my death, i have a guy to fight for me.
Courtrooms? Got my friend to be the judge.
Arbitration? I have the money and you have the issue so let me hire a guy to hear you out and ignore it.
It seems that we need to change how we solve disputes like every 120 years before it gets overwhelming and the old system stops working entirely.
This just seems like an issue of power.
It’s not that the systems of solving disputes are broken in a “I figured it out!” sort of way, but moreso that all systems rely on power, and some people simply have more power.
Changing the system might improve things, I don’t know, but I don’t think your analysis sounds correct.
Just imagine if divorce proceedings changed from basic legal options on who gets to keep the kids but to who could register higher on a decibel meter while farting.
Don’t you think that would change up the power dynamics? And if you keep changing it who has the power keeps changing too. For a while its people with IBS butt, next it might be people with overly active tear ducts (who can cry the most). Really keeps it randomized and balanced for power. And by the time people start getting eye surgery and eating more beans to win more, boom changes again.
Obviously an extreme but changing the rules would change the people with power right?
I’ll pretend you didn’t just make me read about fart-based justice…
I’m not sure it does!
When might made right, naturally that was by fighting. Now, we prefer to have a rule book (laws) for everything and then get a group of random people (jury) to decide who’s right.
So, in the first case, the person with the advantage is the best fighter, and in the second case the person with the advantage is who knows the laws best? Or maybe who can argue their case best.
But no! The person with the advantage is whoever has the power to rig the system, be it by hiring someone to fight in their stead or to hire the better lawyer or to stack the jury or whatever. The “power” I’m talking about is money, by the way, in case that’s not clear, and it doesn’t change depending on the system.
Sure, for the fartvorce (fart divorce) it would be the loudest farter… Or maybe it would be whoever gets to choose the decibel meter by bribing the fart-judge or something. Or maybe it’s whoever can afford the best surgery to implant a fart-enhancer in their rectum! I don’t know… Still, I don’t think changing the system does that much, at least, in terms of stopping people from just throwing money (power) at the problem.
LoL thank you.
Well written well said. I get it and also you still discussed using the fartvorce analogy.
I really appreciate you.