If you can understand the virtual world, then quantum moral reasoning is not such a big leap.
Most people do not recognize the huge difference between meat space and online. They keep trying to apply their meat-space expectations to the virtual world, and it simply doesn’t work that way:
But “Kafkaesque” seems more appropriate. The term is conventionally defined as “having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality”, but Frederick Karl, Franz Kafka’s most assiduous biographer, regarded that as missing the point. “What’s Kafkaesque,” he once told the New York Times, “is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behaviour, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world.”
I’ve already noted in previous posts that if you learn military style operational security, if you can absorb the crazy mindset necessary to live in a combat zone, then you can easily understand computer security. And if you can get that, then you are ready to consider moral security. That is, you are prepared to recognize things most humans cannot and will not see as danger. There are a significant number of moral threats — or demonic influences, if you prefer — that try to sucker you into grabbing the wrong thing. It works that way online and it works that way when you try to live by God’s Laws.
Not paranoia, but it requires a confident watchfulness. You have to know what is required of you; your mission needs to be pretty clear in your mind. From there, you are in the position of strength, but it does require vigilance.
