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Awesome post (again) ... loopholes not only illustrate Hanson's point about hypocrisy; they are also an effective and "legalized" way of gaming the system

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Forgive my comment in another thread, where I accused Hanson of ignoring Katz. But you don't appreciate the full force of Katz's argument. You write:

Katz doesn’t even appear to consider the possibility I favor, that we are often designed to be hypocritical, to appear to support and follow social norms while actually evading them.

Of course he doesn't consider your theory or any number of alternative psychological theories that might explain these legal tensions. His point is that such "perversity" can be explained as logically inevitable, making your explanation otiose. To ask him to consider other explanations is like considering psychological explanations for the voting paradox.

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