Intent Matters
The Good Fight
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The Paradox of Victimhood
I'm always interested in paradoxes where something you do to remedy a problem then sort of increases it on the other end and social life is full of those right I think there's something attractive to our culture in which we take victimhood seriously. If you create a lot of incentives for people to really define themselves by the one experience that had in their lives that is the worst day of their lives, he says. It may be bad for them psychologically and it might be bad for our ability to thrive together. He thinks Ruth Bader Ginsburg was on to something when she talked about how progress has been shunted aside as a belief system but did we put up with too much crap maybe?
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