Scrolling through the SBF debacle memes of the broader world, I’m kinda gut-punched to see all the images of Sam and Caroline getting raped. I think it’s important that we not give in to to similar dynamics of dehumanizing or group fantasizing about violent punishments, and I think that starts with advice like this, Emrik.
I’m impressed by your emotional gamut that you can feel anger and compassion simultaneously! (I don’t tend to feel anger.)
Stuff I feel when I see such posts (DEAM is classy in comparison to Twitter):
Compassion, because I still think they were basically well-intentioned, though evidently they made all the morally and strategically wrong calls.
It feels like uncivilized vigilantism that makes me feel unsafe.
They’re not ugly at all imo, so if I or anyone else is further from the beauty ideal, does that make us all even uglier (unbeknownst to me)? I can only imagine how terrible people must feel who read such posts and actually look similar to them!
It feels arbitrary and unpredictable. Why is someone suddenly ugly when they steal a ton of money? Are people going to think I smell bad because I did a bad mistake in my driving test 15 years ago? This probably just triggers childhood trauma where students alleged that I must’ve sustained in-utero brain damage because I’m afraid of violence or something. What keeps people from punishing, e.g., Rob Wiblin because they think that he caused harm by switching from CEA to 80k or whatever (80k used that as an example in some article)? That would seem super mean, un-called-for, and unproductive!
One of the many ways in which I’m completely different from them is that I’m highly risk-averse. That’s something that is generally frowned upon in our communities. I feel guilty for perpetuating a norm that is merely good at some common margin and not universally and can be so catastrophic when applied universally.
Scrolling through the SBF debacle memes of the broader world, I’m kinda gut-punched to see all the images of Sam and Caroline getting raped. I think it’s important that we not give in to to similar dynamics of dehumanizing or group fantasizing about violent punishments, and I think that starts with advice like this, Emrik.
...what? I haven’t been outside for a spell, and I knew things were bad, but that’s just broken.
(We can fix it, though! With faith, patience, and a whole lot of sitting in office chairs!)
I’m impressed by your emotional gamut that you can feel anger and compassion simultaneously! (I don’t tend to feel anger.)
Stuff I feel when I see such posts (DEAM is classy in comparison to Twitter):
Compassion, because I still think they were basically well-intentioned, though evidently they made all the morally and strategically wrong calls.
It feels like uncivilized vigilantism that makes me feel unsafe.
They’re not ugly at all imo, so if I or anyone else is further from the beauty ideal, does that make us all even uglier (unbeknownst to me)? I can only imagine how terrible people must feel who read such posts and actually look similar to them!
It feels arbitrary and unpredictable. Why is someone suddenly ugly when they steal a ton of money? Are people going to think I smell bad because I did a bad mistake in my driving test 15 years ago? This probably just triggers childhood trauma where students alleged that I must’ve sustained in-utero brain damage because I’m afraid of violence or something. What keeps people from punishing, e.g., Rob Wiblin because they think that he caused harm by switching from CEA to 80k or whatever (80k used that as an example in some article)? That would seem super mean, un-called-for, and unproductive!
One of the many ways in which I’m completely different from them is that I’m highly risk-averse. That’s something that is generally frowned upon in our communities. I feel guilty for perpetuating a norm that is merely good at some common margin and not universally and can be so catastrophic when applied universally.