A lot of social advice amounts to “round problems down”. Live and let live, turn the other cheek, don’t take things personally, etc. If you avoid escalation, you avoid destructive feedback loops. The concept of microaggressions as endorsed by the modern left does the opposite.
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draft idea: lower status norms more likely to resemble honor culture, people raised low-status more likely to have belligerent responses to perceived slights as a locally-helpful behavioral adaptation that performs badly out of sample
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yes, I've noted you can hash out conflicts more honestly when poor.
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