it’s almost like people don’t actually have principles and just bully whoever their social context tells them is acceptable targets 🤔
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Yeah but calling them on their hypocrisy helps change the social context
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does it tho 🤔
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Kinda, yeah. If people get consistently called on their hypocrisy that's part of the social context, and putting together a good argument in public for why This Is Not OK removes plausible deniability and gives others who are already on side tools for promoting good behaviour.
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i think this basically doesn't work anymore on the internet, if it ever did. it might work with people you have existing relationships with irl. do you have any evidence that this works?
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realized i can gather data on this question myself
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poll: has a "callout" post on social media from a stranger (e.g. a post dunking on some kind of hypocrisy that you engage in) ever motivated you to be a better person in any way?
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This poll doesn't test what I'm claiming though? You're missing the crucial step which is the actual proposed mechanism.
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My claim is that the mechanism is:
1. I talk about the thing.
2. Other people who are already mostly on side read it.
3. Those other people are now more likely to act usefully in situations where they have high leverage.
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I don't expect people who are being hypocrites to read these tweets and go "Yeah I'm being a hypocrite, I'll stop". I do think people who read these tweets and go "You're right, that *is* bullshit" to be slightly more inclined and better equipped to change the social environment.
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hmm okay this is a more reasonable mechanism of action to me
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i'm still independently interested in the poll though