You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

Lumifer comments on Stupid Questions March 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: Gondolinian 03 March 2015 11:37PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (199)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 March 2015 09:21:41AM 5 points [-]

How does aggressively demanding compassion work? I mean, it does, politically, lots of social change was achieved by people going on the street and yelling the equivalent of "fuck you, you are harming us, we suffer, you asshole" but I guess on me it does not really work and I wonder on how it works on others. I am compassionate with people who come accross as harmless and non-threating for me, while when people come accross as aggressive or angry I am in a defensive-hostile, fight-or-flight mood. But apparently, not everybody, for this thing clearly seem to work.

Comment author: Lumifer 04 March 2015 07:30:05PM 3 points [-]

How does aggressively demanding compassion work?

Through forcing political and/or institutional and/or social changes. It's a slightly masked demand for redistribution of power.