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really makes me wonder if, when you're a resolute, hard to shake person, you truly have the capacity to fracture your own shell.
and on the other hand, when you're the genuinely vulnerable type, easy to attune to others for better or worse, could you build a shell?
i really wonder about how we build our emotional shells and shed ourselves of them is what i'm saying. it's such a mystery to me.
i learn to control my feelings by getting used to them. over time i collect enough self-observation to figure out which action modulates what and then start driving it.
this is not always to my benefit.
for brain-environmental reasons, not all feelings are on the roster simultaneously. some can be absent for a long time. and with them, knowledge of control also disappears.
that's why the feelings i haven't had for the longest time are the strongest to resurface, when they do.
ah, so this expands the tram lever zoo by one more model, where one of the people tied to the less populated track attempts to manipulate you into sparing them.
the best thing you can try is to make such a transition as painless as possible, but such plans can fail due to several factors, of which come to mind:
* lack of global coordination
* preemptive subordination is exploitable (prices rise, lower tiers lose out)
* softening measures are expensive
* powerful "losers" play dirty to delay the turning point, risking disruption and steepening the gradient (it happens later - but then much quicker)
some pain is inevitable.
hard to express my feelings about idealism when it manifests.
looking at the big picture, you'd say it's a net positive, when e.g. environmentally friendly technologies start winning out.
but in the detail, there's people who lose in the interim. the transition is not without victims. you could pretend they all deserve it, but that's too easy
this is one of those shitty tram-directing levers i prefer to pretend do not exist. the utilitarian argument appears to be the only rational one.