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Comment author: MrMind 22 April 2016 07:49:00AM 2 points [-]

my role is that of the villain, providing an obstacle which requires him to overcome personal faults and which plays conveniently to his preexisting strengths

This is a strategy that I've only seen working in comic books.

At least this should show the danger of taking cues about interpersonal behavior from fiction.

Comment author: OrphanWilde 22 April 2016 01:26:36PM -1 points [-]

It works all the time. It relies on cognitive dissonance - if you're so nasty that other people want to defend somebody, they think more positively of that person than they would if they didn't.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 22 April 2016 03:29:26PM 0 points [-]

It looks like an awfully long chain of inference to me. One weak point was that other people were attacking Gleb-- it wasn't you as a lone attacker.

Note that (and this may be a flaw in my character), I was left wondering if you were right rather wanting to defend Gleb.

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