In some sense, I knew all this 10 years ago when I first started community-organizing and running into problems with various flavors of deception, manipulation, and people-hurting-each-other.
But, I definitely struggled to defend my communities against people who didn’t quite match my preconception of what “a person I would need to defend against” looked like. My sympathy and empathy for some people made me more hesitant to enforce my boundaries.
I don’t know that I’m thrilled with “malefactor” or “maleficence” as words (they seem too similar to “malicious” and don’t think they convey the right set of things), but, I very much agree with the distinction being useful.
Curated.
In some sense, I knew all this 10 years ago when I first started community-organizing and running into problems with various flavors of deception, manipulation, and people-hurting-each-other.
But, I definitely struggled to defend my communities against people who didn’t quite match my preconception of what “a person I would need to defend against” looked like. My sympathy and empathy for some people made me more hesitant to enforce my boundaries.
I don’t know that I’m thrilled with “malefactor” or “maleficence” as words (they seem too similar to “malicious” and don’t think they convey the right set of things), but, I very much agree with the distinction being useful.