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I think the scold is irrelevant. Those who want to be radicalized get there one way or another. Outside of extreme and closed brainwashing/cult contexts, “radicalizing” is not really something you can do to another person who can freely choose who they listen to.
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Saying you’ve been radicalized by someone else is playing victim. “Look what you made me do” is for things like spilling something when someone startles you. It’s not really a justification for holding beliefs. If you’re an adult with Google access, you chose your beliefs.
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I disagree. If people are in pain—I’d they are hungry, if a physician has dismissed their illness, if they are deeply depressed, etc—it’s not reasonable to say they have control over how they react to an internet scold. Nor should they have complete agency—we aren’t Data.
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Yeah, I don’t think it’s the internet scold’s “fault” either. IMO these behaviors are all emergent properties of a complex system, and overemphasizing individual agency is a mistake.