Artemis
· 1w
If you mainly taste the punishment without the rewards, you're going to resent that system & not want to participate.
If you do manage to perform your social role "correctly", however, then you're ho...
I don't think suffering social disapproval automatically makes you a good person. Far from it! I don't think experiencing social approval makes you a bad person.
But I think (perhaps obviously...) people who successfully conform to social systems struggle significantly more with breaking out of them than those who don't or were never granted that opportunity.
My older siblings made sure us younger kids KNEW we were doing things "wrong", & in the long run that sort of helped us get free.