But if the culture is constrained to hold opposite meta-norms constant, such as a norm of seeing the blind spots or a norm of actually doing what one’s religion or cultural norms tell one do do, then the resulting selection will act against the dangerous memes instead.
(Sometimes I worry about the problem of how to extend the principle of charity to memes that cannot be safely taken literally.)
My answer is to judge them by the success of the actions they lead their practioners to do, not the falsifiable (or deliberately unfalsifiable) claims about reality they espouse.
(Sometimes I worry about the problem of how to extend the principle of charity to memes that cannot be safely taken literally.)
My answer is to judge them by the success of the actions they lead their practioners to do, not the falsifiable (or deliberately unfalsifiable) claims about reality they espouse.