Mini-thread: against the "One Commandment"

Balaji's The Network State (see my review https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/07/13/networkstates.html ) has a concept called "the one commandment": a new startup society should have one key moral value that differs from the outside world. I argue that this is wrong.

Instead, any realistic new community is going to have a complicated jumble of various legible and illegible values (and "vibes") that appeals to a particular group of people. And this is the *only* realistic way to define a new (or existing) community.

I agree with this take. Democracy is messy and people are far too nuanced to be clumped together given just one belief. Perhaps they could first rally around one thing at first but, once formed, there would be disagreements on some ideas and how to best solve.