From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 23:19:08 +0000 (-0800) Subject: draft "Political Science Epigrams" X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b83f934b5c638970e697ab598659697d132f89ef;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git draft "Political Science Epigrams" --- diff --git a/content/drafts/political-science-epigrams.md b/content/drafts/political-science-epigrams.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..387d4d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/political-science-epigrams.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Title: Political Science Epigrams +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: other +Tags: cathartic +Status: draft + +If your policy is, "We don't negotiate with terrorists, but we do appease bears", then from the perspective of a third party fighting a war against the bears, you look like a productive asset being farmed by the bears, and thus, a legitimate military target. + +If your behavior is optimized to respond to political threats, but not to carefully-reasoned arguments from your friends, at some point your friends start to face a strong incentive to stop being your friends and start threatening you politically, because you've made it clear from your behavior that that's all you respond to. + +If you were angry at an enemy (who used to be a friend), you might throw a rock at them. But if they didn't react to the last rock, you need to patiently build a bigger rock.