Posted by Dr. Bob on August 7, 2009, at 9:33:47
In reply to Re: make change, posted by alexandra_k on August 6, 2009, at 23:00:52
> I feel like my thoughts on this are unheard.
>
> DenebThanks for working on this, too, but to me the above doesn't seem significantly different from:
> I feel like that hasn't been understood.
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> > > > > Why would we encourage people to apologize when we don't believe they have done anything wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Because you wouldn't want them to be blocked.
> > >
> > > Yeah. I guess one might similarly encourage people not to express political dissent when they are in a social group where political dissent is punished by involuntary committment and treatment (e.g., as it used to be considered 'sluggish schizophrenia' in Russia). You can see, though, that people aren't likely to encourage people to stop doing that which they personally have no problem with.
> >
> > Not even in a social group like the above?
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> I suppose one strategy could be to get people to stop expressing political dissent (eradicate the 'problematic' behavior in that way). That wasn't the idea, though
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> alexandra_kWhy wasn't that the idea? They didn't want their friends to be involuntarily committed, did they?
Bob
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