Laws shape what feels sacred
A World Cup detour, the betting ads flooding the Brazilian FIFA stream, becomes a reflection on how a country's laws quietly bias each person's sense of moral sacrilege. In Brazil games of chance are illegal, so betting is culturally taboo, 'their cocaine', and the stream full of bet promotions (with the government now investigating) reads as scandalous, where to a Colombian, casinos on every corner and coin-pusher machines kids grow up on, it's utterly normal. In the US, passing a stopped school bus with its sign out feels like having killed someone, a commandment; in Colombia the concept doesn't exist. In Germany, decades of climate campaigning have made not-recycling or running an air conditioner feel like sacrilege, so amid a European heat wave people are shamed for buying AC even as heat deaths rise, 'my ancestors burned the world and now I have to suffer'. And in parts of the Middle East, being homosexual or leaving a religion is illegal. Juan's point, reported without endorsing any of it: the same law a government writes ends up unconsciously reinforcing a moral reflex in everyone under it, so what feels sacred is often just what was legislated.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 49:58 (lo que me hizo reflexionar es cómo las leyes sesgan el pensamiento de cada persona)
- ↳ video diary @ 50:17 (en EEUU pasarse un bus escolar parado es sacrilegio; en Colombia no existe)
- ↳ video diary @ 54:44 (en Brasil apostar es sacrilegio, en EEUU el bus, en Medio Oriente ser homosexual o dejar la religión es ilegal; la ley sesga a todos)
- ↳ Entry 258-2: The Nuremberg lever (la misma cuestión de cómo un sistema define y graba el bien y el mal)
A World Cup detour, the betting ads flooding the Brazilian FIFA stream, becomes a reflection on how a country’s laws quietly bias each person’s sense of moral sacrilege ▸ 49:58. In Brazil games of chance are illegal, so betting is culturally taboo, “their cocaine”, and the stream full of bet promotions, with the government now investigating, reads as scandalous, where to a Colombian, casinos on every corner and the coin-pusher machines kids grow up on, it’s utterly normal. In the US, passing a stopped school bus with its sign out feels like having killed someone, a commandment, and in Colombia the concept doesn’t exist at all ▸ 50:17.
la ley del país sesga, sin que lo notes, tu sentido de lo sagrado →
In Germany, decades of climate campaigning have made not-recycling, or running an air conditioner, feel like sacrilege, so amid a European heat wave people are shamed for rushing to buy AC even as heat deaths rise, “my ancestors burned the world and now I have to suffer”, when between baking and cooling, Juan would rather live. And in parts of the Middle East, being homosexual or leaving a religion is illegal ▸ 54:44. His point, reported without endorsing any of it, is the same good-and-evil question from the other side: the very law a government writes ends up unconsciously reinforcing a moral reflex in everyone under it, so what feels sacred is often just what was legislated, and cross a line you never chose and it registers as having killed someone…
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no entry has continued this idea yet: the arc is still open