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The Importance of Coherence in Human Behavior
The law has to decide what do we officially call illegal? What do we not? That's right. The ability to have sort of concepts like this that we can cohere around which ones are good and bad has been really important. And at the same time, it's also true that all of these concepts involve washing some details under the rug so that sometimes a person will run afoul of one of these concepts because yeah, their blood was slightly over the alcohol limit while they were driving their car a few blocks. Although actually that particular person was perhaps a much safer driver with that alcohol level than many people who would have been on the other side of the line or whatever.