"Moral equilibrium is the idea that most people keep a running mental scoreboard where they compare their self-image as a good person with what they actually do."
(Source: Ethics Unwrapped)
Moral Equilibrium (Ethics Unwrapped)
"The burnout and stress-related symptoms experienced by caregivers and other helping professionals in reaction to working with traumatized people over an extended period of time."
(Source: American Psychological Association Dictionary of Psychology)
Cited By Schur (Chapter 12)I’ve been thinking of a way to explain to straight white men how life works for them, without invoking the dreaded word “privilege,” to which they react like vampires being fed a garlic tart at high noon. It’s not that the word “privilege” is incorrect, it’s that it’s not their word. When confronted with “privilege,” they fiddle with the word itself, and haul out the dictionaries and find every possible way to talk about the word but not any of the things the word signifies.
So, the challenge: how to get across the ideas bound up in the word “privilege,” in a way that your average straight white man will get, without freaking out about it? (Scalzi, 2012)
Robert Frank: Success and Luck (Cornell, 2015)
Cited By Schur (Chapter 13)
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