Yes - but now rephrase all of that outside the scope of the Justice System because while it's relevant, it's actually secondary.
Victim signalling is likely something that runs really, really deep in human psyche.
There are these really cute cats on TikTok that pretend to 'limp' without use of one of their paws to get attention, ostensibly playing on this kind of emotive empathy at a mammelian level.
As babies, we cry for every reason, because it's the only way we have to communicate.
So it's starts right there: victim status and victim signalling as entirely different class of social activity, with differing effects.
I guess if you have a good life, it's easy to lack empathy, and if you're reminded of your actual oppression quite often, then it's easy to not only empathize, but to see oppression under every rock, that it's a universal and material condition of one's existence, i.e. to become identified with it etc..
But this: "crybullies" - that's a very good term. We need to use that.
Victim signalling is likely something that runs really, really deep in human psyche.
There are these really cute cats on TikTok that pretend to 'limp' without use of one of their paws to get attention, ostensibly playing on this kind of emotive empathy at a mammelian level.
As babies, we cry for every reason, because it's the only way we have to communicate.
So it's starts right there: victim status and victim signalling as entirely different class of social activity, with differing effects.
I guess if you have a good life, it's easy to lack empathy, and if you're reminded of your actual oppression quite often, then it's easy to not only empathize, but to see oppression under every rock, that it's a universal and material condition of one's existence, i.e. to become identified with it etc..
But this: "crybullies" - that's a very good term. We need to use that.