Intro LO: Op 5 oktober 2022 schreef deze journalist een soortgelijk artikel: Kent Nederland een huizentekort of een singlesoverschot? Zie ook mijn overeenkomstige overeenkomstige blog. Medio januari 2025 verscheen een soortgelijk Trouw artikel: Woningtekort? Niet echt. Er is vooral een tekort aan kleinere woningen. Zie ook mijn overeenkomstige blog. Interessant is...
Guilt & Shame
The west’s shameful silence on Gaza (FT)
Intro LO: Am I ashamed of my silence on Gaza?? No. I'm not willing to make a choice between two parties that are both guilty. It might be tempting to view the sequence in time as relevant (eg, 2023, 1947/1948 (UN), or even 1855 BC). In my view, It's not. It might also be tempting to view the severity of the fighting as relevant. In my view, it's not. It might be...
Let it go …
My title is a common advice by people. I suppose I use that type of advice myself as well. Nevertheless, that advice feels rather useless if and when you receive it yourself. Quite often, the issue - or “problem“ - is time-bound. The very next day, you might have forgotten already. “Firstly, I felt like it was a personal attack. As if the premise of her advice was...
Victim roles: individual versus collective
Apparently, collective guilt is an issue for Germans and for Russians (eg, German collective guilt, Russians And Collective Guilt). However, it might only be a media and/or a political topic (eg, DW-2019, Hungarian Conservative-2022). At least, guilt is an emotion rather than ratio. How about individual and/or collective victim roles?? “Victim mentality is...
The psychology of secrets
Introduction LO: I noticed this 2024 British Psychological Society (BPS) article because I was curious about secrets, including the how, what, when, where, who and why of secrets. Actually, the introductory BPS statement feels weird: “In fact, you probably have about 13, five of which you've never told anybody else.” In my view, I have no secrets. Perhaps, my...
Presumed guilty
In some European countries (eg, Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland), car speeding fines are much higher for rich people (eg, EUR, NBC). The reason is quite simple: rich people need to feel the legal punishment, like poor people always do. What if societies would extend the of the presumption of innocence principle towards an assumption of guilt??...
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