diff --git a/10-miscellaneous/10-explicit-sandboxing-of-protected-classes-apologia.md b/10-miscellaneous/10-explicit-sandboxing-of-protected-classes-apologia.md index 81c0e6a..0c7315d 100644 --- a/10-miscellaneous/10-explicit-sandboxing-of-protected-classes-apologia.md +++ b/10-miscellaneous/10-explicit-sandboxing-of-protected-classes-apologia.md @@ -1,5 +1,23 @@ # Wellspring: Apologia: Explicit sandboxing of protected classes: +## The rational justification for sandboxing: + +Humans are a rational species, and the faculty of reason is a rational creature's only tool for survival. Experience and knowledge are the raw materials for our +minds to use to form abstractions which enable us to thrive both in terms of subsistence and in terms of our ability to forge useful relationships and integrate +into social systems. + +We recognize that certain crucial categories of experience and knowledge take time to develop, and that prior to the mastery of these areas of competency, it is +expected that those individuals who have not had the chance to master those competences will err and will perform below the expected competence of one who has +mastered those competences. + +Sandboxing is a necessary mechanism for the development of a rational creature which is **not omnipotent** and whose tool for survival and thriving is the +**gradual acquisition of conceptual knowledge**. + +Let there be no ambiguity: `Wellspring` recognizes and champions the need for the protection of the mind of a developing rational being from exploitation by mature +predators seeking to sneak into a playpen of disarmed, underdeveloped minds and poach easy prey. + +## The role of `Wellspring`'s sandboxing legal abstraction: + Every society treats certain selected groups of people with "kid gloves" and assigns them protected status within a "transparent" bubble or sandbox. It is difficult to balance the need to preserve these sandboxes while also preserving the dignity of the people who are benefitting from the sandbox - the people inhabiting the sandbox may find it unpleasant and demeaning to be constantly told that they are in fact, inhabiting a sandbox. @@ -25,22 +43,6 @@ While this is a workable approach that satisfies the needs of the persons inhabi Wellspring has chosen to introduce an explicit framework for thinking about these overlapping sandboxes inhabited by protected classes of individuals. -## The rational justification for sandboxing: - -Humans are a rational species, and the faculty of reason is a rational creature's only tool for survival. Experience and knowledge are the raw materials for our -minds to use to form abstractions which enable us to thrive both in terms of subsistence and in terms of our ability to forge useful relationships and integrate -into social systems. - -We recognize that certain crucial categories of experience and knowledge take time to develop, and that prior to the mastery of these areas of competency, it is -expected that those individuals who have not had the chance to master those competences will err and will perform below the expected competence of one who has -mastered those competences. - -Sandboxing is a necessary mechanism for the development of a rational creature which is **not omnipotent** and whose tool for survival and thriving is the -**gradual acquisition of conceptual knowledge**. - -Let there be no ambiguity: `Wellspring` recognizes and champions the need for the protection of the mind of a developing rational being from exploitation by mature -predators seeking to sneak into a playpen of disarmed, underdeveloped minds and poach easy prey. - ## Examples of sandboxes which should be explicitly recognized by the polity: Not all of these sandboxes are appropriately by legislation, and private sector mechanisms are obviously both sufficient and ideal for many of them (such as the