On 2/27/21 11:46 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Victimhood is defined in negative terms: “the condition of having been
hurt, damaged, or made to suffer.” Yet humans have evolved to
empathize with the suffering of others
<https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093625>,
and to provide assistance so as to eliminate or compensate for that
suffering. Consequently, signaling suffering to others can be an
effective strategy for attaining resources. Victims may receive
attention, sympathy, and social status, as well as financial support
and other benefits. And being a victim can generate certain kinds of
power: It can justify the seeking of retribution
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1088868312440048>,
provide a sense of legitimacy or psychological standing
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0065260110430038> to
speak on certain issues, and may even confer moral impunity by
minimizing blame
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103110002805?casa_token=lcT50_aIYZoAAAAA:koczwa8oIlWHkIjG4QHxQ1Ltg0EltUy24q28kFnXAyT6SPNq2wVOBliZwBRelyDuckaGMil9tg>for
victims’ own wrongdoings.
https://quillette.com/2021/02/27/the-evolutionary-advantages-of-playing-victim/
<https://quillette.com/2021/02/27/the-evolutionary-advantages-of-playing-victim/>
I feel like I am being stalked. If I end up being stabbed in the back
while jogging through Central Park, I urge Les Schaffer to authorize the
police department to conduct an investigation based on the IP trail left
by this mental hospital escapee.
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