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“When we are anxiously attached, our inability to trust the intentions and behaviors of others will often lead us to escalate situations and then reject attempts to reassure us. It is a painful and dramatic spiral.”

Trust Anxiety Rejection Escalation Codpendency

Book:Awakening Hope. A Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

Source: Awakening Hope. A Developmental, Behavioral, Biological Approach to Codependency Treatment.

“the fact that a police officer on TV said what used to be a fist fight or road rage is now a shooting, and what used to be a domestic dispute is now a gun rampage, and what used to be a tardy or disruptive student is now a school shooter, the fact that the police aren’t much better themselves, the fact that what used to be an arrest or a warning is now a split-second execution”

Violence Guns Escalation Shootings

Book:Ducks, Newburyport

Source: Ducks, Newburyport

“Every gesture of retribution carries in it the risk of escalation. It is not an insignificant possibility that the morally right may result in the morally wrong.”

Justice Morality Revenge Retribution Escalation

Author:Ágnes Heller

“The Escalation Game is not an exotic brainteaser. Real life presents us with quandaries in which we are, as the saying goes, in for a penny, in for a pound. They include long-running labor strikes, dueling lawsuits, and literal wars of attrition, in which each nation feeds men and matériel into the maw of the war machine hoping the other side will exhaust itself first. The common rationale is “We fight so that our boys will not have died in vain,” a textbook example of the sunk-cost fallacy but also a tactic in the pathetic quest for a Pyrrhic victory. Many of the bloodiest wars in history were wars of attrition, showing once again how the infuriating logic of game theory may explain some of the tragedies of the human condition. Though persisting with a certain probability may be the least bad option once one is trapped in an Escalation Game, the truly rational strategy is not to play in the first place.”

War Fallacy Escalation Game Theory

Book:Rationality

Source: Rationality

“Choose containable violence when violence cannot be avoided. Better this than epidemic violence. — Lessons of Choice, The BuSab Manual”

Violence Escalation

Book:The Dosadi Experiment

Source: The Dosadi Experiment

“What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation. Or, we might say: when escalation is suddenly felt to be occurring, it is a sign that our anecdote is transforming into a story.”

Writing Story Escalation

Book:A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

Source: A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“Escalation is the key consequence of refusing to problem-solve or negotiate, and it demands our attention as a central obstacle to peace and justice.”

Problem Solving Negotiation Obstacle Escalation

Book:Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

Source: Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

“From this vantage point, Sam's view was pastoral. Rabbits and squirrels scurried on the hillside, while birds darted in and out of the orchard's trees and bushes. The morning's low light illuminated the world from one side in a dramatic way: apples were split in two, red and black; halves of trees were luminescent of green, while the other halves were dark and brooding. Life is divided into shadow and light, Sam thought. You can see it either way, based on your own perspective Sam stopped and considered that, before adjusting her thought. Based on your own light level.”

Perspective View Sam Mullins Shadow And Light Halves

Book:The Recipe Box

Source: The Recipe Box

“The scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture.”

Religion Intelligent Design Willful Ignorance

Book:The Fresco

Source: The Fresco

“Half of me wanted that, half wanted to run, and half wanted to melt into a puddle under the heat of his gaze. And yes, that was too many halves, but Tanner had reduced me to violating the laws of mathematics.”

Mathematics Halves Realtaionships

Book:Hearts Overboard

Source: Hearts Overboard