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It's mafia logic but honestly way more ingrained into large-brained mammal culture than that. "I'll protect you but the main thing I'm protecting you from is my
by nonameiguess 2y ago
It's mafia logic but honestly way more ingrained into large-brained mammal culture than that. "I'll protect you but the main thing I'm protecting you from is myself" is a tactic employed by everything from actual mafias to entirely legal police and military organizations to the dominant male chimp in a troop. It's easy to see from a detached view how stupid it is, but how do we combat something so fundamental to our animal drives that it predates the existence of our own species?
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI'm after something a bit more specific than that though. Threats feed into changes in the status quo in myriad ways and not all of them involve this kind of flip flop where you time the switching of sides such that you get to be seen as the one saving the day (nevermind that it's from yourself several years ago).