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66. James Lindsay on Psychological Warfare

You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist

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The Psychology of Warfare

"If you are in a warfare situation, you do want to set your opponent up to be in a lose-lose situation," he says. "You want them to feel like that whatever they do, it makes their circumstances worse" Parents who show up to try to fight for their kids often fear the retaliation if they don't take any action at all and so choose not to intervene. That's psychologically moralizing. It puts people in a position where inaction feels like the only action, the only option that they have."

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