Jens Finkhäuser 🌻Eliciting sympathy for apparent victimhood taps right into the empathy of the recipient. Any sufficiently empathetic person will fall for it. They have to.
But this usually requires a particular interpretation of the facts, where other interpretations are also feasible. Except that these other interpretations do not agree with the apparent victimhood status, and thus turn the recipient into a perpetrator.
No empathetic person wants to be the cause of other people's suffering, so what's the...
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