[onlyrealcuzzo]

Okay, substitute Taliban for the Church of Scientology or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

It's a marginally less absurd proposal.

My point stands.

Proposing extreme religious nepotism as a good counter-measure to deal with espionage 1) would be minimally effective (see the IDF infiltrating Hamas and Iran regularly), and 2) is ridiculous.

[monkeyelite]

> Proposing extreme religious nepotism as a good counter-measure

Please read the thread again.

This is not a prescription. This is a description of how high trust markets work.

See this classic economics paper “Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York”: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=349040