Editing Example Norms

[[Category: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.

= Bad Norms =