day no. 15,453 continued... victimhood as virtue

"When you elevate victimhood as virtue, you will create a culture in which people are tripping over themselves to be oppressed." -- Allie Beth Stuckey

You get more of what you incentivize and less of what you penalize. If you make it profitable to see the world in terms of "me," you will find your world flooded with those looking for all that has been done to them. If you threaten to punish those who see the world in terms of "I," you find your world lacking those who take initiative or responsibility for themselves and others.

“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst... In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man