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So instability makes people more consistently act out their strong moral positions? It seems to me that it would make someone behave more randomly
by dyno12345 14y ago
So instability makes people more consistently act out their strong moral positions?
It seems to me that it would make someone behave more randomly
- mpyne 14y agoI can see exactly what jacquesm is talking about here actually. I think he's talking about instability as in issues with inhibition. Kind of like how people sometimes commit the stark crime of saying what you really think when drunk, Manning might have taken an action that others merely only think about because that little part of you that says "BAD IDEA MAN" was asleep on watch at the time. If nothing else his "instability" would be consistent with his behavior at other times, before and after he joined the Army.
- dyno12345 14y agoSo it's just something that makes you do good things more?
- jacquesm 14y agoNo, it is something that makes you do things that might end up with you in front of a firing squad or room&board for the rest of your life less.
- dyno12345 14y agoWhich could be good or bad or whatever, or a mix of both, or whatever. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
- mpyne 14y agoI would say it's something that makes you evaluate the difference between short-term and long-term good things (e.g. a policy that drives up income in the short term may wreck your business in the long term). Or alternately, the difference between a good thing, and a good thing with collateral damage.