1/We assign responsibility to people as a function of how much we think that responsibility can change their behavior. Ill behaved children and the mentally ill? Our responsibility judgment 'passes through' the individual into the parents, or to shitty brain builds.
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7/ Also why socialism tends to be more female-supported - for women and socialism, responsibility passes through "you" into society or authority or whatever. But if you look around, you can see constantly little decisions for where to let the responsibility land, all the time
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8/and for me it's seeming increasingly weirder, and more revealing of our incentives, where we want to focus blame (and power!), and ultimately an arbitrary tool used to guide social norms for deeper purposes.
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