It seems like the usual solution to this is to ACT appropriately contrite to the police officer/ teacher / boss, while maintaining whichever internal narrative you prefer.
I think the costs of lying/deceiving in this way are very high, even in circumstances like the one mentioned above. In addition to that, the abundance of method-acting in modern actor communities also makes me think that the way people usually “act” things like this, is to make themselves actually believe the thing they are trying to signal, at least temporarily, which still comes with much of the same emotional costs.
I don’t think humans are able to act in a way that can fully and reliably convince others of lies of this type unless they are either willing to sacrifice important parts of themselves or are willing to half ass the lying such that it doesn’t really look like what the true emotion of submissiveness would. Humans are mindreaders because Humans are mindwriters—they express their emotions on their faces, in the patterns of small twitches, etc—and taking an internal locus of control of your mindwriting that decouples it from your actual emotions seems incredibly dangerous to me.
(I upvoted you because I felt that you were making a good point that I had considered making. This objection was why I decided not to.)
It seems like the usual solution to this is to ACT appropriately contrite to the police officer/ teacher / boss, while maintaining whichever internal narrative you prefer.
I think the costs of lying/deceiving in this way are very high, even in circumstances like the one mentioned above. In addition to that, the abundance of method-acting in modern actor communities also makes me think that the way people usually “act” things like this, is to make themselves actually believe the thing they are trying to signal, at least temporarily, which still comes with much of the same emotional costs.
I don’t think humans are able to act in a way that can fully and reliably convince others of lies of this type unless they are either willing to sacrifice important parts of themselves or are willing to half ass the lying such that it doesn’t really look like what the true emotion of submissiveness would. Humans are mindreaders because Humans are mindwriters—they express their emotions on their faces, in the patterns of small twitches, etc—and taking an internal locus of control of your mindwriting that decouples it from your actual emotions seems incredibly dangerous to me.
(I upvoted you because I felt that you were making a good point that I had considered making. This objection was why I decided not to.)