Anonymous asked:
argumate answered:
I’m not sure if it makes sense to talk about communities having fatal flaws, and I’m not actually involved in this community, so I couldn’t really say.
Argumate’s too polite, but I’ll give you a flaw, Anon. Right as I’m about to sleep.
There’s sort of a “can’t see the forest for the trees” thing, where they aren’t always modelling the collective effects of individual behavior.
1. Polygamy. A lot of them identify as polyamorous. I wouldn’t be surprised if many of them support legalizing polygamy. However, the effect of a bunch of weird nerds doing this, many of whom are literally some degree of autistic, is very different from what happens if it become normalized at the level of society. Effects like child brides and poor mental health outcomes for women and children.
2. FGM. FGM isn’t the only one like this. The effects of immigration are non-linear, and depend on the cohesiveness and size of the group. If you have no community, you must integrate. That changes at n=2, n=4, n=20, n=150, etc. So it becomes possible for a practice like FGM to reach the US and have an underground ring.
Whatever error is responsible for both of these, that’s the fatal flaw.