The winner worldview is that you have responsibility for your own life and it is irrelevant who is at fault if the people at fault can't or won't fix the problem. I've noticed over the course of my life that winners ignore questions of blame and fault and look for solutions they can personally influence. Losers blame others for their problems and expect that to produce results.
Scott Adams musing on what that woman in the Manhattan harassment video could do.
This actually clashes with the idea of heroic responsibility, a popular local notion. I guess it depends on what your values are.
I think taking responsibility for everything whether or not you caused in is exactly what heroic responsibility is about.
Apart from that Scotts get's a lot in the article wrong. In particular Scott argues:
The men in the street video are presumably repeat offenders. And that means they are getting a reward, at least occasionally, from their shouted public compliments. And I assume the reward comes from the occasional women who appreciate the compliments and smile back.
That's a naive view. It's probably wrong.
To the extend that Eliezer argues "D...
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