Vaniver comments on Praising the Constitution - Less Wrong

-6 Post author: dragonfiremalus 27 June 2015 04:55PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (53)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Vaniver 29 June 2015 01:21:28PM 2 points [-]

edit: Lately I started thinking that maybe it's all culture in the end, and things like having a constitution or a parlamentary system vs something else means very little once culture is fixed. Perhaps there are (culture-specific) society traps to avoid, but aside from that there is probably a lot of robustness to organization type.

Note that feeling bound by laws, and in particular constitutions / the will of Parliament / etc., is itself a cultural thing. I get the sense the arrow pointing from culture to institutions is very big and the arrow pointing back is fairly small.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 29 June 2015 01:25:11PM 1 point [-]

Yes, I agree with this.