The Dobby Effect and AG1

There's another aspect to this that I wanted to point out in that there's a lot of passivity that comes through the whole flavor of the letter is like, all this stuff happened to me. By not taking responsibility, you're feeling like a victim. He wants to abdicate his responsibility by having us say what he did was perfectly fine. And it's not so much what he did. It's the way in which he did it. Research often shows that guilt prevents people from enjoying life and sometimes even causes them to self punish. The dobby effect based on the elf in the Harry Potter books that used to smack his head against all and go, bad dobby