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.

Interesting examples. What's the deeper reason if there is one?

I would guess many of us find communities built around a single principle somewhat repelling, which may be a protective mechanism to stop us from joining dangerous cults?

Something vaguely having to do with this, I think:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/25/the-tails-coming-apart-as-metaphor-for-life/

The harder you optimize for one thing, the less likely each further unit of optimization for that thing is to give you other things you like as a byproduct.