"Whoever displays intense negative emotion first, loses" is not in any way a law inherent to the nature of interpersonal conflict, but we can make-believe that it were profitable to believe as much. What would that look like?
"Whoever displays intense negative emotion first, loses" is not in any way a law inherent to the nature of interpersonal conflict, but we can make-believe that it were profitable to believe as much. What would that look like?
That's somewhat ambiguous. What would what look like?
A world in which whoever shows negative emotion loses?
Dunno, Equestria?
A world in which everybody pretends that whoever shows negative emotions loses even though that's not true?
Also Equestria, but one in which the populace is terrorized by a Robin Hanson who sees the hidden truth of the world or something.
A system of belief in which whoever shows negative emotion loses?
Stoicism, maybe?
Probably /v/, where every post is an attempt to bait intense negative emotion out of the opposition
Like a cesspool of passive-aggression, o naive child, beloved child.
"Damn, I really thought I'd win this argument," she said, dropping the tire iron on the body.