How Not to Convert People to Your Cause

[rowyn]

Sigh.

I suppose it's not quite as horrible as picketing the funerals of servicemen, but rampaging through a church service is the exact opposite of a persuasive argument, and acting like spoiled children is only going to give ammunition to the people who oppose your cause. Blah.

Comments

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

Psychologically, this makes a whole ton of sense. This is a GREAT reaction, if you're living in trees and most of your enemies stop to groom each other for hours a day. Running through their settlement, hooting and swinging a real big tapir bone feels pretty good, and gets your point across: you are not good targets.

Unfortunately, the same wetware makes us feel just as good 10 million years later. And now we're gifted and cursed with this whole "language" things which lets us complicate the issue enormously, sometimes closer to reality, sometimes further away. And there's still that raw and immediate need to feel strong again while a threat's nearby. But it's not gonna do them a damn bit of good, and that's very sad -- both its futility, and for the failure to recognize these urges for the crossed signal they are.

[rowyn]

Yeah, I suppose it made them feel good. "Look, we're doing something!" It just makes me feel sad. ;_;