an individual might be curious or naive but is unlikely to be cruel or destructive. that's group behavior. cruelty is a type of social performance.https://twitter.com/makoalama/status/1131927582625161217 …
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the point of cruelty is often not to make the victim suffer. in this case, the victim is a machine and cannot suffer in any way that we might empathize with (with apologies to robot friend
@eigenrobot). the cruelty is done only for social reasons, to impress other children.2 replies 0 retweets 13 likesShow this thread -
what is being demonstrated here? power? boldness? novel forms of play? what is running through the unconscious mind of a child who engages in performance of social cruelty?
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like two years ago wasn't the item of the day some kind of scholarly look into, like, "feats of daring" as a social exercise, using Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a jumping-off point
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That sounds like a specific thing you are recalling but I don't know what
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yeah, and i'm never gonna find it in the five billion fucking things that have been written about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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i think it had something to say about doing dumb shit for the sake of your reputation signals you are not to be fucked with because you will do dumb shit for the sake of your reputation
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its these frogs, but as social behavior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrobates …
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