maybe we can find a software solution to the selective enforcement problem.

;)

Calmness doesn't mean you stop taking action against injustice.

Please.

some people just want to create, and that's ok. if you think they might be interested in something someone else has done, it's easy enough to say 'you might be interested in...'

no need to talk about 'better', etc.

Not really. You can attempt to tempt someone with cake, but to succeed in tempting them they'd have to experience temptation.

Actually, what I wrote is true. Look at the definitions of tempt in order to see this.

  Definition of tempt
  transitive verb

  1: to entice to do wrong by promise of pleasure or gain
  2a: to induce to do something
   b: to cause to be strongly inclined
      was tempted to call it quits
  3a: to try presumptuously : PROVOKE
      tempt fate
   b: to risk the dangers of
   c: obsolete : to make trial of : TEST

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tempt

Yes, that supports what I'm saying.

law enforcement isn't doing the executing

It's not, because again, the police aren't paying or soliciting others to do the executing.

Went when I was pretty young. I remember finding tiny pieces of glass on the ground that we took to get inspected to find out that it was, in fact, glass and not diamond.

Ha, when I was 9 or 10 I took some coal to a jeweler because I was convinced it was some exotic and valuable stone. I still have no idea what I was thinking.

I can't help but smile when somebody uses words as a professional gut punch. Looking forward to the discussion on this.

This is one of my favorite posts

Generally speaking, a victim is someone who didn't/doesn't have the power to keep themselves from being a victim.

If you encourage someone to believe that they don't have the power to keep themselves from being a victim, generally speaking, that's a good way to turn them into a victim.

Better approach: teach people to recognize and use the power they have to avoid becoming a victim when they encounter a potential victimizer.

Obviously we’re speaking in generalities, but sometimes people reclaim that power vía speaking up about victimhood.

Generally speaking, demanding to be recognized as a victim doesn't do much to prevent or end victimhood, and in many cases, actually hurts.

I've seen far more people's lives ruined trapped in a victim mentality than I've seen ruined by saying "I refuse to see myself as a victim any longer. I have the power to do something about my situation."

Many people were a victim of an incident or circumstances beyond their control. But who benefits by continuing to define those people by the things that they were a victim of? What purpose does it serve to keep them trapped, rather than giving them the power to overcome?

We might be getting a little stuck on the word 'victim'. My main point is that people speaking up about being hurt can be a way for them to find resolution around it. Sometimes other people don't like them speaking up, but personally I wouldn't think of it as my place to judge.

>But who benefits by continuing to define those people by the things that they were a victim of?

I think ideally it's up to the person themselves to decide when they no longer need that definition.