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OrphanWilde comments on In Defense of the Fundamental Attribution Error - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: OrphanWilde 03 June 2015 06:46PM

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 08 June 2015 03:23:35PM 1 point [-]

One alternative I've encountered is to blame the behavior, rather than the person; change the behavior, rather than the person. (I'm not particularly fond of that approach; it sets off a shitload of my personal ethical alarm bells relating to manipulative behaviors and de-agentizing people. But for people who use less explicit ethics, it could work).

Comment author: Lumifer 08 June 2015 03:39:19PM 1 point [-]

Not sure you have much in the way of good alternatives as "changing the person" should set off even louder bells from your manipulative-behaviors alarms.