>I think this really is more about behavior and our choices and the consequences in this day and age. That's it.
I think that talking about behavior and choices gets to the heart of it: we can't try to convince people to adopt different ideas or different culture and expect behavior to change. We have to examine, empirically, what is actually driving call-out witch hunts -- which I very much agree with you and Brooks are a terrible, stupid pathology of our present (polite, urban) society.
To stop this, we need to ask: why is this happening?
I think that talking about behavior and choices gets to the heart of it: we can't try to convince people to adopt different ideas or different culture and expect behavior to change. We have to examine, empirically, what is actually driving call-out witch hunts -- which I very much agree with you and Brooks are a terrible, stupid pathology of our present (polite, urban) society.
To stop this, we need to ask: why is this happening?