>>12618120>The social cohesion and the willingness to obey instructions and guidance pretty much resulted in a lockdown without requiring to pass any legislation.Yes, and the reason Sweden has a high level of social cohesion is because they don't have a government that employed authoritarian policies to enforces legal and social norms. If our leaders had acknowledged COVID in the beginning and not lied about transmissibility and the efficacy of masks then this wouldn't be a problem. If our government had lied us into the Iraq War, this would not be a problem. If social media companies and big tech were not engaging in censorship and deplatforming, this would not be a problem. This is an objective fact and it is supported by both empirical evidence and game theoretic models. If you want social cohesion, you have to start with liberal values, free speech, open debate, and education.
The idea of censorship and social engineering has been completely debunked by fields like behavioral economics, game theory, evolutionary anthropology, and criminology. There is literally decades of research confirming that the best way to combat issues like drug crime, terrorism, cults, extremist religious groups, conspiracy theories, social conflict, etc. is through non-coercive measures, public engagement, and education. In other words, instead of using threats of legal punishment, deplatforming, censorship, or military occupation, governments and commercial entities should encourage community debate, discussion, reconciliation and mediation between competing viewpoints, and education programs. Again, this is all objectively true, and one of my CS professors actually studies the social dynamics of religious and political extremism and teaches a course on this stuff. If you want to combat shit like Islamic Terrorism, COVID conspiracies, gangs, Qanon, etc. it is actually objectively ineffective to resort to coercive methods like censorship or militarization of policing methods.
