It’s the thing where an extreme mistake theorist comes up with epicycles that are increasingly implausible to explain why the system in question is layered mistakes rather than the much simpler one that it is a conflict. ‘moral mazes’ implies complexity and connotes the undecidability of morality.
Everyone I’ve seen be really into moral mazes as a concept takes a strongly conflict-theory approach to systems they believe are mazes. That the presence of the epicycles means there is no working with it and the whole system must be burned.
Now that I think about it, much of the purpose of the label could be to allow one to use conflict theory modalities on a system that won’t acknowledge (and may genuinely not see) the conflict. Zvi’s Out To Get You posts certainly seem to be that.
(Fwiw, I thought I knew what you meant with your top level comment, but this elaboration wasn’t what I expected and is much more interesting).
It’s the thing where an extreme mistake theorist comes up with epicycles that are increasingly implausible to explain why the system in question is layered mistakes rather than the much simpler one that it is a conflict. ‘moral mazes’ implies complexity and connotes the undecidability of morality.
Everyone I’ve seen be really into moral mazes as a concept takes a strongly conflict-theory approach to systems they believe are mazes. That the presence of the epicycles means there is no working with it and the whole system must be burned.
Now that I think about it, much of the purpose of the label could be to allow one to use conflict theory modalities on a system that won’t acknowledge (and may genuinely not see) the conflict. Zvi’s Out To Get You posts certainly seem to be that.
(Fwiw, I thought I knew what you meant with your top level comment, but this elaboration wasn’t what I expected and is much more interesting).