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Jan 19

Quick: Ban Something!

There are complicated, long-brewing problems in society, driving some terrible outcomes. Those problems are most visible in some broad demographic — especially when some political hustler points to them in that way — and tells you it’s so. Quick: We need more laws, more police, more prisons, more punishment —…

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Quick: Ban Something!
Quick: Ban Something!

4 min read


Jun 20, 2022

It’s Not About Dogs

Imagine you have a large dog. It has big sharp teeth, but has never bit, much. Until recently. You could decide to keep it in a muzzle to create an artificial handicap. And you could keep it in a cage, to “prevent it having access”. …

Society

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It’s Not About Dogs
It’s Not About Dogs
Society

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Jun 16, 2022

Banning Things

There are complicated, long-brewing problems in society, driving some terrible outcomes. Those problems are most visible in some broad demographic — especially when some political hustler points to them in that way and tells you it’s so. Quick: We need more laws, more police, more prisons, more punishment — brought…

Banning Things

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Banning Things
Banning Things
Banning Things

7 min read


Jan 2, 2022

The Package

“Don’t you have something to put that in?” Some of them gasped at the question. “You can’t talk like that” one of the women said. “I have a schedule to keep” he said, looking at his watch. “Don’t you have a cardboard box — like for printer paper? …

Short Story

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Short Story

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Jul 13, 2021

Defuse Bullying with Resilience and Humor

We define bullying as “social sorting through despotic means”. In that way of thinking, we could liken attempts to bully as someone trying to seize the role of “casting director” for the social “play” at hand. Refusing to be cast into the role of victim (either outwardly or in one’s…

Bullying

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Defuse Bullying with Resilience and Humor
Defuse Bullying with Resilience and Humor
Bullying

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Jul 6, 2021

Group Bullying (part two)

Humans have intuitive, unconscious, evolved awareness that being mean can be socially profitable. If we want to stop group bullying we have to face this reality and deal with it as-is. Empathy standing in the way of cruelty-based social profitability. It gives us a troublesome sense that cruelty is just…

Bullying

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Group Bullying (part two)
Group Bullying (part two)
Bullying

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Jun 29, 2021

Group Bullying (part one)

Why do Bullies Gang Up on Targets? We define bullying as “social sorting by despotic means”. In group bullying targeting a specific person is a natural part of people trying to sort a social group. In that frame, there are three reasons for a group to gang-up on an individual: …

Bullying

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Group Bullying (part one)
Group Bullying (part one)
Bullying

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Jun 22, 2021

Understand Bullying: Overcoming Shame

Shame is the most potent and concerning emotion related to bullying and the centerpiece of the emotional system that drives the three actions of bullying: • taking Advantage of power • using Aggression • and Accepting mistreatment Shame places people at risk both for being targeted and for engaging in…

Shame

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Understand Bullying: Overcoming Shame
Understand Bullying: Overcoming Shame
Shame

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Jun 15, 2021

Understand Bullying: The Role of Shame

Shame is the centerpiece of the emotional system that drives bullying. It is the most common, and most powerful of the related emotions. It flows from, and also reinforces the greatest number of other emotions driving the three actions of bullying behavior: taking Advantage of power using Aggression and Accepting…

Shame

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Understand Bullying: The Role of Shame
Understand Bullying: The Role of Shame
Shame

7 min read


Jun 8, 2021

Understand Bullying: Sad Kids

It’s time to understand Bullying and the role of sadness and how that emotion activates the three actions of the bullying system: taking Advantage of power using Aggression and Accepting mistreatment It might seem that sadness would only influence the third action of bullying — acceptance of mistreatment. …

Bullying

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Understand Bullying: Sad Kids
Understand Bullying: Sad Kids
Bullying

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