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Look, the coverage screamed idiotically about motive. You fuckers want to obediently speculate about motive, you can go out into open forums like the rest of the news-obsessed narcissists who think the world turns on fellating the structural power of people who enslave journalists.
Did you see that article on “shy”copaths that ran not too long ago? The most broken people on the planet are desperate to pathologize people who are nice enough to speak without inhibition. They don’t get it. Inhibited and concealed cruelty can outlast lifetimes, for cruelty thrives in darkness, but exposed cruelty gets reshaped. People only learn to be good if they’re open enough to potentially make mistakes, humble enough to change their beliefs, and safe enough to speak what they actually believe. Isolated bigot types don’t get told they’re wrong at all - they get punished! Punishment doesn’t tell people they’re wrong, it tells people that power won’t permit them to think. That’s the opposite of telling someone they’re wrong.
Similarly, telling people what’s right only by authority mouthpieces doesn’t work either. People need to be part of society where they can hear from equals that they’re wrong in forthright ways without punishment.
Sometimes it seems like I am one of the only people on the planet who can straightforwardly and lastingly change anyone’s mind, and do you know what I would say is the biggest secret? I don’t punish people for disagreeing. I make the best case I can (I’m not awesome at this) and then I’m okay with other people continuing in their own lives whether I’ve won ‘em or not. Finite pressure is a superpower; other people try some godawful whammy or envelopment techniques.
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[–] 17194385? ago
Look, the coverage screamed idiotically about motive. You fuckers want to obediently speculate about motive, you can go out into open forums like the rest of the news-obsessed narcissists who think the world turns on fellating the structural power of people who enslave journalists.
Did you see that article on “shy”copaths that ran not too long ago? The most broken people on the planet are desperate to pathologize people who are nice enough to speak without inhibition. They don’t get it. Inhibited and concealed cruelty can outlast lifetimes, for cruelty thrives in darkness, but exposed cruelty gets reshaped. People only learn to be good if they’re open enough to potentially make mistakes, humble enough to change their beliefs, and safe enough to speak what they actually believe. Isolated bigot types don’t get told they’re wrong at all - they get punished! Punishment doesn’t tell people they’re wrong, it tells people that power won’t permit them to think. That’s the opposite of telling someone they’re wrong.
Similarly, telling people what’s right only by authority mouthpieces doesn’t work either. People need to be part of society where they can hear from equals that they’re wrong in forthright ways without punishment.
Sometimes it seems like I am one of the only people on the planet who can straightforwardly and lastingly change anyone’s mind, and do you know what I would say is the biggest secret? I don’t punish people for disagreeing. I make the best case I can (I’m not awesome at this) and then I’m okay with other people continuing in their own lives whether I’ve won ‘em or not. Finite pressure is a superpower; other people try some godawful whammy or envelopment techniques.