From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 18:21:27 MDT
On 7/14/20030, Kevin Freels wrote:
>One of the problems that I see is that people tend to place themselves into
>groups to which they do not belong. For example, people join churches based
>on social status rather than a set of congruous beliefs. ...
Actually, I'd say that social status makes more sense than beliefs as a
rational basis for association.
>Hypocrisy is being reduced generation by generation. ... someone in
>today's society that will stand up and say "I'm a perverted S&M freak" or
>"I'm gay", or "I'm an atheist". Mixed race couples were very, very rare; ...
Perhaps there is a trend, but this seems to me more a part of cycles than
trends, and new hypocrisies replace the old ones.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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