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- Nov 2021
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Once it becomes clear that attention and praise can be garnered from organizing an attack on someone’s reputation, plenty of people discover that they have an interest in doing so.
This is a whole new sort of "attention economy".
This genre of problem is also one of the most common defenses given by the accused as sort of "boogeyman" meant to silence accusers. How could we better balance the ills against each of the sides in these cases to mitigate the broader harms in both directions?
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- Oct 2013
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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Since a given action can be done from many motives, the former must try to disparage it by selecting the worse motive of two, the latter to put the better construction on it.
This whole section just seemed super deceptive to me.
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