Helping people is hard. Giving advice to people is rarely effective. Much advice boils down to: here's what I'd do if I were you. The trouble is that although you may see a way out of a given predicament as you imagine yourself facing it, you are not the one in that situation.
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Been thinking about this as well. Related example I was led to, a good refomative prison system is really hard. Much more easily resolvable is that the current US system is actively bad. Trying to think of other situations that fit this sort of model
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Incredible thread but specifically this one tweet could be an intro to a novel and I love it
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While I don't dispute that most people suffer from their own negative patterns that bring them down no matter the outer circumstances, there is also a class of red-pill takers who run into obstacles for throwing out the countless little obedience patterns of "successful" folks.
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Huh, causality? I.e. does assimilating a world view make people disagreeable or does low agreeableness make people adopt certain world views? I’d guess feedback loop as per usual.
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i'm always a bit suspicious of empathy. seems like you're either doing proper empathy or going beyond empathy. either way, it's helpful to hear you describe it.
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The other side of this is we underrate palliation. Welfare can "only" palliate, but that's actually really good and important.
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this. No good decision was taken under poverty, hunger and so on. Some 'palliations' are a big no brainer.
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