So you want to preserve a problematic principle to keep talking about it's contents? How terribly meta.
The shirky principle is not needed. Shirk is already an English word meaning 'avoid or neglect responsibility'.
The shirky principle is not needed. Shirk is already an English word meaning 'avoid or neglect responsibility'.
There are numerous and quite normal unproblematic examples of how self-preservation is unwanted and destructive. I for one am interested in learning how and why these incentives evolve and how to structurally combat them so that we never have to talk about harmful examples of the Shirky principle ever again. Concretely apropos and not one whiff of meta.