The subtilities of manipulation & brain-washing & influence
I shouldn't take a lot of time to dwell on this concept right now, but, I think manipulation happens a lot, perhaps in both good ways and bad.
Through tones, attitudes, words.
Perhaps when it happens for the good, perhaps it's 'positive influence' rather than 'manipulation'...
Hmm.
And then why are people sometimes so easily manipulated or influenced?
Hmm.
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As we learned in class today, there are three ways to get people to act in a certain way:
1) by example
2) by moral suasion
3) coercion
I think your ideas can vary among which one you are doing. The first two are good. Reason and by example are fine ways of influencing people... and bad company corrupts good morals.... I'm not sure what you're asking, so maybe you have an example.
Manipulation. As in discussing it at home--we "train children"--maybe it sounds like manipulation. Perhaps it is. I think that "manipulation" is acceptable.
But as adults? I think we must all try to do it to some extent to get our own way, without realizing it.
One thing I think of when it looks like someone has been manipulated: perhaps it was like in Luke 23, the crowd that insisted to Pilate that Jesus be crucified--he listened to their urgency, demanding with loud cries, and their voices prevailed. I think of blatant manipulation--someone is urgent, loud, insistent, demanding, and it doesn't relent. That is what I think of when I think of real manipulation. You see whole groups following someone like that. Gives me the creeps.
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