RE: Is the Past Real?
October 26, 2022 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: October 26, 2022 at 10:21 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It seems as though some value systems are more or less suited to producing good outcomes. One does wonder how a value system that doesn't include keeping promises would be suitable for the organization of a society. It seriously impacts trade, for example, if agreements cannot be binding. If I purchase a herd of cattle from a man who dies and pay in installments, am I free of my burden if he dies after the first installment..and..if so, might that compel me to engineer his death? Or, in a society where such agreements are not binding (life and death utterly irrelevant), and so we all insist on upfront lump sum payments, what is the size of that burden to the flow of capital and what costs does it incur on society?
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