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In general this is a good point, but you should remember that "totally arbitrary" rules often do have some value, in that following them signals that you are pro-social and likely to follow the rest of the rules as well; cf. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.09318 .

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Yeah, but by that metric the Yakuza chopping off their pinkies has value too. I'm talking about material benefit to the practioner's lives.

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