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Calling someone an asshole doesn't help you diagnose the problem, it just lets you vent and confirms your personal biases. If you want to get to the root cause
by BadassFractal 12y ago
Calling someone an asshole doesn't help you diagnose the problem, it just lets you vent and confirms your personal biases.
If you want to get to the root cause of this, you need to understand why that is happening. I strongly suspect that in most cases it's lack of emotional/social intelligence, and also frequently (how much is unclear) due to pathologies.
Sure, sometimes you know that what you're about to say is totally inappropriate, and you do it anyway, but I'm willing to bet that's a serious minority of cases.
- Dewie 12y ago> Calling someone an asshole doesn't help you diagnose the problem, it just lets you vent and confirms your personal biases. In order to diagnose the problem you also need to have the relevant qualifications. Do you?
- BadassFractal 12y agoI don't claim to be an expert, but I know that name calling will not get me an inch closer to understanding the situation.
- DanBC 12y agoIgnorantly ascribing poor behaviour to neuro-atypicality, with no evidence of such, is worse. You do nothing to understandthat actual behaviour and you stigmatise people who are neuro-atypical. Sometimes assholes are just assholes.
- DanBC 12y agoThis is probably the Linda Problem -- the conjunction fallacy. "Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations. Kahneman and Tversky stripped the quiz down and tried again. They had students read the same profile of Linda. But then they simply asked whether it is more likely that Linda is (a) a bank teller or (b) a bank teller who is active in the feminist movement?" Most people say (b) because they feel the need to explain Linda's social conscience.