Example Norms

Good Norms

• People should participate in multiple, smaller, social groups that are largely independent.
  • Participating in smaller groups ensures the possibility for socially transmitted ideas to grow without interference.
  • Participating in multiple independent groups ensures that those ideas can germinate across groups and propagate to society overall.
• Disenfranchised suspects should not face greater scrutiny than rich, powerful, connected, or popular suspects.
• Rich, powerful, connected, or popular suspects should face greater scrutiny than disenfranchised suspects.
• Expectation of prosocial behavior and propriety from greatest to least: Public officials, Public voices, Rich and Powerful People, Commoners. (roughly)
  • Consequently, the punishment for violating the public trust should be highest for Public Officials.
• Similarly, the protections afforded by civil and human rights should never be enjoyed less by commoners than by public officials.
• Minimize cashflow to malevolent actors.
  • At any given moment, this means shifting all spending, public and private, away from certain governments or corporations.
  • Governments that are able to respond to the public will faster are better for society.
  • Individuals who can identify and react quickly to such campaigns are better for society.
    • Seriously; wash your hands regularly, cough and sneeze into your sleeve, and cut off cashflow early
• People who are not aware of, or do not participate in, boycotts are gross.
  • Like; talking in the theater gross.
  • Like; peeing on the seat in a shared bathroom and not wiping it up gross.
  • "What do you think of the <insert boycott centerpoint here> boycott?"
    • This should be a common public conversation point.
• If you live in a society where people do not express their beliefs and live up to them, there's a problem.
  • One of the core regulators on hateful beliefs is scrutiny by one's peers.
  • It also can create hateful in-groups.