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This is a fundamental problem of society including democratic societies. Minorities without a strong lobby can be disproportionately affected by something without eliciting so much as shrug from everybody else.

It takes many years of activism to build awareness for these sorts of issues. I worry that increasingly tight technological control over various aspects of our lives will create more of these situations and eventually overwhelm our capacity to build awareness. The result could be widespread cruelty.

The solution cannot be for each and everyone of us to be aware of and emotionally enganged with every possible predicament in which others could find themselves. It's just not possible psychologically.

We need to design our rules and systems to be resilient in the face of unexpected things going wrong and in the face of permanent partial brokenness of everything, including rule making itself. It's very difficult and I'm not optimistic.