Rats and Slot-machines: Why we keep using solutions that don't always work
Guilt is one of the devices people use to get their needs met. I can't say I think it is a fair means to that end, but it does work short term sometimes, and when one is too tired or confused to look far past the short term, that's enough: it's an easy 'automatic' to fall into. "Right,' or not, we do it. Some people opt for other good short-term, bad long-term solutions like brutality, or sheer obstinacy, or some other innately primate way of getting obstacles out of the way, or outlasting a... Sign in to see full entry.