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Understanding someone's motivation has nothing to do with compliance, unless you've already made up your mind that the other side is a comic book villain and th
by brazzy 9y ago
Understanding someone's motivation has nothing to do with compliance, unless you've already made up your mind that the other side is a comic book villain and their motivation is to be evil for evil's sake.
In reality, understanding someone's motivation can lead you to discover factors that influence it which you can change without doing anything unacceptable or even detrimental to you.
- netsharc 9y agoHear hear. Meanwhile a lot of people are really reductionist due their lack of critical thinking. "They're evil because of the book they believe in, we should ban that religion!" (as if that will fix all the problems...). I find the work of Scott Atran in explaining the motivations of Islamic extremists (so we can also reduce/end it) really good: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/15/terrorists-isis https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/15/terror...