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But this is now a false dichotomy. When in line, you are better off not escalating. When designing systems and lines, you are better off building ones that do
by taeric 2y ago
But this is now a false dichotomy. When in line, you are better off not escalating. When designing systems and lines, you are better off building ones that don't encourage and reward cheating.
At the end of the day, you will be forced to reckon with the fact that the optimal amount of cheating is almost certainly not 0. Which sucks in many ways. But does not change that you are better not escalating anything.
- whimsicalism 2y agowho said anything about escalating? i am merely discussing correctly inferring people’s motivations. getting up in arms about it is another thing altogether and i don’t need to pretend that the line cutter has some pure motive to not confront or escalate.
- taeric 2y agoMy point is that one line of thought is more likely to be escalatory? Is literally how I entered this thread, if I'm not losing my mind. (Which, fair, debatable.) I am also not arguing for you having to assume pure motivation, oddly; but against assuming bad motive. My reasoning for this would be pointing at how many people are constantly escalating small encounters.