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> That is some Stockholm syndrome thinking. Stockholm syndrome is a feeling of affection towards your captor. I do not feel the slightest bit of affection tow
by azangru 8y ago
> That is some Stockholm syndrome thinking.
Stockholm syndrome is a feeling of affection towards your captor.
I do not feel the slightest bit of affection towards our government. I despise them. But I do feel it may be in the captive's interest not to annoy the captor too much; better yet, not to attract his attention at all.
- zzzcpan 8y agoYour captor is constantly looking for excuses to escalate things. There is nothing you can do to keep things the way they are.
- azangru 8y agoIt is a matter of belief, I suppose :-) One can believe in the reality where the captor is constantly thinking of how to provoke the captive and then destroy him, or in the reality where the captor is minding his own business until he is provoked. The Russia of the first decade of the 2000s rather resembled this second reality. Whether the reality has switched to the first one, I am not sure.
- zzzcpan 8y agoAt this point it's not a belief, but a historical record. The whole thing started small with "protect the children" kind of bullshit. Then gradually and consistently escalated to gain more power.
- anonymfus 8y agoOK my word choice was wrong. >But I do feel it may be in the captive's interest not to annoy the captor too much; better yet, not to attract his attention at all. Only if there is an expectation that they will be released. If you are in the death camp then rebellion is your only actual chance. Because we have nuclear weapons no foreign government will interfere just to bring us democracy.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoSo it's Battered Spouse Syndrome, then.