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Find out if a wellness campaign can be a good fit for you. Take this free online course to assess how ready you are to start your own wellness campaign. Wellness Warmup F R E E How do you know if you're ready for your own wellness campaign? A welln ess campaign may not be a good fit for just anyone. Before starting your own wellness campaign, check if this is a good fit for you. Take this free online course to decide for yourself. This short course gives you a brief taste of what a campaign is uniquely about. Simply register to the Anankelogy Foundation site. Accepting our terms of service and privacy policy green lights you to proceed. Let these four simple steps help you decide if you're ready to proceed with your own wellness campaign . See for yourself if you’re ready to join us in spreading some love. 1 Assess if this is a good fit for you Answer ten simple questions to check for yourself if this is a good fit for you. Start experiencing what a wellness focus can be like for you. 2 List & invite those you know List as many people you know you could ask to express a need to you. Choose one of three ways to invite them to express their need. 3 Observe replies and follow up See how they respond. Do they have a need you can instantly respect? Follow up on any stragglers. Mark how responsive each one is to you. 4 Decide if this is right for you Review your two scores . Decide if you should start your own campaign. Decide if you need a proxy to represent you. Or if you’re set to go it alone. start your own free Wellness Warmup online course

Cases of innocence falling through the cracks of the appellate process get pick up by innocence projects. But where do they go after falling through the cracks of the innocence project? They can go here. We address viable claims of innocence outside of the adversarial legal process. We remove legalistic biases that neglect actual innocence. Public Exoneration If you're a wrongly convicted innocent, where do you go if the Innocence Project declines to review your viable claim? Appellate Process Your innocence gets overlooked by the biases built into the adversarial judicial process. Innocence Project Your innocence is better appreciated, but forced to fit into the adversarial judicial process. Public Exoneration Your innocence gets heralded outside their legalistic blind spots, compelling the courts to respond. 1. Your estimated innocence score This service is for those who have demonstrated their actual innocence using the Estimated Innocence Form . You can download your own copy here . 2. Your public innocence profile This service works best when your viable claim of actual innocence is profiled on th e Unexonerated page. Check it out for yourself right here . 3. Your public exoneration in 5 phases This engaging alternative to the adversarial legal approach has yet to be fully tested. It will be tested by the designer, a wrongly convicted innocent. Public Exoneration is a type of problem-solving "wellness campaign ". The innocence claimant, or their proxy representative, is served by a professional need-responder , which is a new kind of professional. They guide the process. Instead of serving the law as lawyers do, or championing one party against another as the role of attorney does, the professional need-responder helps you resolve each other's inflexible needs as a way to solve the problem of wrongly convicting the innocent. Instead of helping you to change your cognition and behavior, or trying to ease your emotional pain, as psychotherapists do, the professional need-responder helps you solve the persisting problem of the wrongful conviction, which causes the emotional pain. The professional need-responder helps you address problems occurring at four different levels . The Public Exoneration wellness campaign addresses each level in each of its phases. While this service cannot guarantee it can persuade the court or prosecutor to officially exonerate the client, it can assure you that if all affected needs get properly addressed, it will significantly move the needle toward full exoneration of the wrongly convicted innocent client. To get a quick idea of what the program looks like, click each tab below to learn about each of the five phases. To see one in action, scroll down below. FIT BASE phase TEAM phase GROW phase GOAL phase BASE phase Set a foundation displaying your innocence Leverage your innocence Gain need-responsive skills Solve personal problems Invite peer supporters Learn More... Review your Estimated Innocence Report with your need-responder. Develop strategies to optimize its strengths and address any weaknesses. Together, you craft your dynamic “exoneration plan”. Learn to proactively endure discomforts, to resolve conflicts with authorities, to relate more integrally with reality, and more. Sharpen these skills to later incentivize unresponsive authorities. Get any personal problems out of the way. Improve yourself where you can. Remove any doubt that you are innocent of the conviction. Set the tone for your immanent exoneration. Invite friends and family who believe in your innocence. Learn to show them how they can back your efforts. And how they can attract more backers to support your case of compelling innocence. TEAM phase Publicly establish your innocence Onboard peer supporters to your team Practice your new skills Solve interpersonal problems Invite professional sponsors Learn More... Incentivize your followers to upgrade as supporters and contributors. Show them how they can personally benefit by becoming more centrally involved. Or at least by participating. Guide your contributors to develop the same need-responsive skills you recently sharpened. Invite your supporters to watch, to encourage them to develop these skills on their own. With these new skills, work on any interpersonal problems. Practice solving problems. Demonstrate your capacity to endure discomforts. Publicly validate your innocence. Introduce innocence lawyers and other innocence activists to this alternative to adversarial legalism. Invite then to sponsor your campaign to boost their legitimacy. Incentivize their involvement. GROW phase Expand awareness of your innocence Leverage your growing support Onboard professional sponsors Learn to solve power problems Practice speaking truth to power Learn More... Let your growing support network publicize your innocence, your testament to human endurance, your readiness to face conflict with respect for each other’s affected needs, and more. Demonstrate these skills to supportive professionals. Incentivize them to improve their responsiveness to neglected needs with such skills. Vouch for their improved responsiveness. Assess the responsiveness of professionals to your compelling case of innocence. Demonstrate how mutual regard for each other’s needs create s better results than legalistic adversarialism. Invite the most supportive professionals to practice these skills with you. Learn to speak the truth of your innocence in ways that authorities will openly listen. GOAL phase Incentivize authorities to exonerate you Hold court of informed public opinion Replace cold adversarialism with love Effectively address structural problems Declare your avowed liberty Learn More... Give the courts every reason to process your innocence claim. Let them compete with the court of public opinion, as your team connects with media outlets to publicize your case. Upend the norms of the adversarial judicial process by demonstrating this more loving approach to solving conflicts. Let your loving character boldly exemplify your innocence. Unpack the imposing social norms that hinder just outcomes. Invite prosecutors, judges and policymakers to shift incentives. Publicly reward just outcomes over conviction rates. Declare your widely supported innocence before a candid world. Let your support network contest the legitimacy of any official resistance to exonerate you. Reward all who do the right thing. FIT A preliminary phase to prepare the way Self -assessment Invite supporters Get prepared Meet your service provider Learn More... Start by checking if this unique service is a good fit for you. Can the innocence claimant lead this effort themselves? Or should they delegate the leading role to another? Spread the costs early by inviting friends and family to back your wellness campaign. For free for them to merely follow. Or $4.99 per week for them to participate. Or $14.99 each week to get hem centrally involved. Get oriented to how this service operates. Connect with others exploring this alternative. Learn how this process takes a pioneering approach toward exoneration. Meet the professional need-responder. First through texting. Then in person online. No financial commitment for the first thirty days. Two types of Public Exoneration Public Exoneration offers two types of wellness campaigns: Custodial . For those still in prison or under parole or probation. The innocence claimant assigns a proxy with power of attorney to represent their interests. Noncustodial . For those discharged from prison or never sentenced to prison. The innocence claimant typically represents their own interests. Click here to learn more details about a Public Exoneration wellness campaign. Would you like to see a Public Exoneration in action? The best way to learn about a public exoneration is to follow one as it occurs. It is free to follow. Go to the Unexonerated page. Browse through the Innocence Profiles . Pick one you see is similar to the case you support. Then click the button to follow the campaign. Follow PE 1 Follow PE 2 Follow PE 3 Follow PE 1 1/3 Clicking the button opens this Exoneration Support form. 1. Select whom to support. 2. Select the 'follow' level. 3. Provide your name & email. 4. Click the Submit button. Check your inbox for directions. Follow developments Public Exoneration is being developed by Steph Turner, cohost to the Need-Response podcast . Steph will share developments of this new program in episodes published every other Wednesday. Listen along as Steph tests the program, who also is a wrongly convicted unexonerated innocent. Start your own Public Exoneration When ready to start your own Public Exoneration problem-solving initiative, click the Select button below. Choose when you want to start. The first thirty days are free, to give you time to invite backers to help cover the cost in a crowdfunded format. NOTE: Price and options may change as we grow the service to better fit your needs and the needs of others. Need-Response Public Exoneration $199.99 $ 199.99 Every month Solve your stubborn problem of overlooked innocence by mutually resolving needs Valid until canceled 30 day free trial Select Why charge any money for this? "Why isn't this free?" you may wonder. Why should you pay for a service to try to undo something that someone else caused? Fair enough. Charging you a fee keeps us accountable to serving your specific interests. You have little say over innocence lawyers or court appointed lawyers who provide their services pro bono. Their accountability tends to shift toward those who fund their services, instead of remaining accountable to you. Besides... this is far cheaper than hiring a lawyer! By contrast, you and your team can hold the professional need-responder accountable because you and your team directly pays for the service. Spreading the costs to your growing support team ensure there are more people to whom we remain accountable. We think of this more as your investment in improved outcomes, not some legal expense. Besides, as others support your cause, they receive benefits along the way. They improve their responsiveness to needs like yours. With public exoneration, we all help each other to reach more of our lives' potential. We all learn to love each other more, to honor the needs of others as our own. Is that not worth $200 each month? Your freedom is worth far more than that!

React Culture React culture consists of any social or cultural norm privileging anything less than properly resolving needs . react culture - privileged reactions Privileged reaction # 4 Avoidance culture Privileged evasion of uncomfortable material. properly resolving needs Avoidance culture 8/3/26 1 Avoidance culture When conservatives dump on the progressive narrative about microaggressions (i.e., accidental faux pas against marginalized folks), their reactions to apparent leftist hypersensitivity to discriminations doesn’t make such injustices go away. Any avoided problem stays in place. When progressive decry such pushback as “racist” or “privileged”, their reactions to conservatives or independents expressing their need for self-determination and liberty doesn’t make such essentials for functioning go away. Indeed, they persist louder. When using the law as a complainant/plaintiff against a defendant, avoided details will undermine actual justice. Anything avoided of importance is sure to come back and bite you in the ass. Avoidance culture covers that set of social norms that privilege evading awareness or engagement of others with whom one affects. Often to avoid what feels uncomfortable to face, but also to avoid what cannot be cognitively processed in the moment, or for any other reason to steer clear from matters of importance. Defunction: alienation & avoidance norms Avoiding reality rarely makes that reality go away. If that piece of ignored reality affects your needs, then your need gets impacted without your awareness or engagement. That’s a good reason not to perpetually numb your pain. Your pain only exists to warn you of some threat or threats to remove. Left in place, such threats provoke even more pain. You best avoid social norms privileging avoidance of the uncomfortable. Lest you grow alienated from life itself. Connection involves some momentary discomforts. Endured discomforts lose their sting when resulting in meaningful growth. Instead of sensitivity to the affected needs of others, these set of norms rationalize the acceptability of overlooking others in pain. It expects impersonal norms to be enough. Or to trust hyperrationality norms that expect others to conclude the same as themselves, which avoids how reality actually works. Such avoidance is a key element of toxic legalism . Which correlates with unresolved needs, compromised wellness and suffering pain. Examples: Demonstrating an intent to simplify complex matters into palatable soundbites, to the point of evading uncomfortable details one would prefer to ignore. Being dismissive toward the views of others by characterizing a weakness in that view as emblematic of the whole idea, as grounds to not face strong points in that view. Investing more focus (consuming limited time and energy) on one point over another, effectively missing what that other point could offer. Accepting motivated reasoning to rationalize not investigating further, effectively reinforcing blind spots. Easing needs or relieving pain from unresolved exposed needs , while ignoring the likely consequence of perpetuating the problem as those needs persist unresolved, compromising functionality while seeming to fix the problem (which can then be blamed on the individual for not properly applying the avoidant solution). A relatively simple conflict requiring discipline and uncomfortable sacrifices to settle gets characterized as too complex to solve, if only to bypass such discipline and sacrifices. And sometime to preserve the familiarity of the conflict over the fear of the unknown. Citing established norms and routine procedures as reason enough not to fully address a problem, preferring not to upset the status quo which likely has elements necessary and best preserved while also including elements to be excised for the sake of resolving needs more effectively. Denouncing any attempt to understand all sides to a conflict as "bothsidesism" or "moral equivalency" that avoids identifying and addressing the inflexible needs of one or more sides. Heralding one side in a conflict that more effectively conveys its message, or gets it out to a wider audience, to the point of dismissing any helpful critique of any opposing side, regardless of the intent of any of the sides. Overgeneralizing to avoid dealing with messy details. Like when the Trump admin overgeneralized about gender affirming care (which does have some excesses worthy of critique) as mere gender ideology, to avoid the nuance of gender diversity. Or when the Biden admin overgeneralized the need for porous borders to avoid the messy details of vetting an overwhelming volume of immigrants (include some who present a threat to others). Argumentative "debating" to appear as if interested in investigating the facts but actually to assert one's own beliefs and dismiss or disparage contrasting beliefs. Video titles on YouTube manifest this when one side claims to "destroy" or "crush" the other side, without addressing all the relevant nuance involved. Avoidance works with adversarialism to REACT and not RESPOND to inflexible needs . See conflict porn . Contrasts with the wisdom that there is less reason to debate when you can vulnerably relate . Factors adversarialism bandwagon effect, groupthink constrained cognitive bandwidth shrinking presence convenient simplification to oversimplification de-intellectualize or "dumbing down" complicated matters delegate to expertise diffusion of responsibility discomfort coping emotion suppression or repression epistemic reductionism hyperrationality life can be too busy to attend to every detail normalized alienation overthinking avoidance suppressing useful reflection overwhelming stimuli perfidy and other deceptive modes pisticentricity (low epistemic reliability ) privileged avoidance relevant content dismissed as irrelevant social norms privileging evasion diminishing awareness using: ...biased assumptions ...cognitive biases or distortions ...propaganda techniques ...loaded language/terms ...defense mechanisms ...logical fallacies arguing under the veneer of "debating " hyperbole for overgeneralizing what is to be avoided empathy nullified or squashed Propaganda privileging avoidance “Do you think Israel has the right to exist?” Does the United States have a right to exist? If so, do the original sovereign tribal nations in this land have a right to exist, independent of the United States? See how this goes to the core of the question? Do a people fleeing religious or ethnic persecution have a right to invade another land and take it over for their own benefit? If so, does that confer to them a right to oppress that land’s original indigenous inhabitants? Does sympathy for their past endured oppression excuse oppressing others? Hurt people hurt people? Can they then justify it all in the name of their beliefs and still honestly claim to be democratic? Do they then vilify any original inhabitants who resist such occupation as “hostiles” or “terrorists”? Like many Israelis, I too am a dual citizen. I am an enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin while also a U.S. citizen. But my loyalties are more to the liberty of everyone to freely resolve their needs, despite any manipulate elites of any government. Does any socially constructed state have a “right” to exist? Or do the people have a right to security and sovereignty and other innate needs regardless of their government? Jefferson suggested as much 250 years ago in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Or doesn’t liberty matter anymore? All this to draw attention to the social norms in Israeli society privileging avoidance. Such as avoiding awareness of how it has become an Apartheid state similar but not the same as South Africa. And avoidance of how its actions in Gaza can be characterized as a genocide, usually by emphasizing exception and evading any uncomfortable critique. Would it be antisemitic or anti-Zionist to stay silent and let Israeli society implode from the catastrophic consequences of such privileged avoidance? Has Israeli culture devolved into what some scholars identify as a victimhood culture ? Is the familiar pain now felt preferable to the less familiar pain feared? Will not that pain eventually intensify from reacting to it now with privileged avoidance? Is that wise? Refunction: responsive engagement path Need-response counters such avoidance norms by incentivizing us to relate to each other’s publicly affected needs. Instead of complacently reverting back into our silos, we can break out of our isolation and engage each other, to honor the needs of others as our own. Atomization culture Accountability diffusion Degraded social contract Indulgent side-taking Pathological pragmatism Projected antagonism Structural exaction Hyperrationality culture Ascribed legitimacy Dysfunction pathway Manipulative deception Permitted evil Pseudo-rationality Zero-sum thinking Hyperbole culture Bothsidesism misuse Excessive resourcing Mass institution mission creep Petty arguing debate Relativizing universal wisdom Avoidance culture Coerced compliance Gaslighting Moral conflation Premature defensiveness Self-incriminating denials Oppo culture Coerced poor options dependence Humanity loathing Normative alienation Privileged avoidance Shame shifting

3 < Back to list A. Character refunction 3 A honesty Honesty , as used here, is sharing with others what you admittedly know to be true. Specifically, expressing to others about yourself only what you know to be true. And qualifying how well you know something to be true or untrue of yourself. 3 .1 A Need experience The flipside, of course, is dishonesty. Deception prevents one or both sides in an interaction to accurately identify and address the relevant needs. Worse, it can spur one to create trouble of avoidable needs . In an attempt to avoid pain of vulnerability , for example, it creates more pain later. Lying often avoids pain of facing what is true. Honesty serves as a social glue for holding social capital together. You interact with each as you authentically are. You make it possible or others to encounter your actual self, your reality, where you are honestly at. You can enhance your honest by avoiding language with multiple or dubious meaning. You discipline your expression to convey exactly what you intend, and check with the recipient’s feedback. How honest you are depends on the situation. Your level of self-exposure depends on how trustworthy the recipient shows to be with the information. You are not explicitly dishonest when withholding information from someone who could abuse with that self-revelation. As a social glue, honesty is earned. 3 .2 A Defunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction relationally lowers your ability to fully function. It is typically framed with more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 3 .3 A Refunctionalizing Info This subsection applies 'relational knowing' statements to illuminate how this defunction could be turned around to raise your ability to function. It also uses more/more or more/less or less/more or less/less associations that can be empirically tested. 3 .4 A Example(s) This subsection offers some examples of this defunction you may observe affecting your life. Usually more than one example is provided. If reading this, there are no examples yet to this defunction. 3 .5 A Associated defunctions This subsection points to similar or applicable defunctions. If reading this, there are no defunctions specifically associated with this defunction. 3 .6 A Relevant refunctions This subsection points to relevant or complementary refunctions. If reading this, there are no relevant defunctions to correlate with this defunction. 3 .7 A Applicable principles This subsection points to those anankelogical principles that aptly apply to this defunction. If reading this, there are no anankelogical principles related specifically to this defunction. 3 .8 A Referenced blog posts This subsection points to those blog entries that relate to, or cite, this particular defunction. If reading this, there are no blog entries yet related specifically to this defunction. Date created: 8/26/23 Type: Date revised: A. Character refunction The more others hear and trust you to speak truthfully, the more your needs resolve. Say what you need to say without guile. Avoid manipulating others with words you know aren't true. Avoid putting yourself in a situation you feel you must deceive others. Nurture a reputation of being reliable in what you express. Be authentic. Hold others to a higher standard of being forthright with you. See how honesty resolves more needs in your life. Previous Next Discuss at our Engagement forum

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You don’t need anyone’s permission to breathe. < Back F01 Authority Principle List of all principles You don’t need anyone’s permission to breathe. Image: Pixabay - Tama66 (click on meme to see source image) Summary The more authority extends to every detail in our lives, the more it risks slipping into overreach. No human has any legitimate authority over your naturally existing needs. No authority can declare you must now float in midair at odds with gravity. No authority can change your need for water or your need for acceptance or for security. No one can change what you naturally require, not even yourself. Description Which do you think is more likely? Enjoying modern conveniences may require us to give up a few freedoms. OR The more we rely on authorities for what we once provided for ourselves, the more coercive authorities can get. Anankelogy The less we can provide for ourselves, the more vulnerable to the whims of those we must relyupon. I cannot dig my own well for water, for example, so I must take the word of those who tell me this city water is okay to drink. What if it isn’t ? Even if I could dig my own well, I do not have the time. Even if I could test my own faucet water, I am content deferring to local authorities who persuade me to trust its quality. Our lives run deep with countless instances of having to defer to authorities. What if local authorities advise me to boil my water ? Annoyingly inconvenient, but fine. What if local authorities drastically raise my water bill ? Deeply frustrating, but I’ve got to have water. What if local authorities shut of my city water supply due to nonpayment by my landlord? Now I’m utterly disgusted! Each encroachment on my access to water acclimates me to tolerate what I would have objected before. Each government intrusion into my personal affairs—like warrantless surveillance of my private conversations overseas—conditions me to put up with a few more invasions of my privacy. Each minor infringement upon my right to access quality healthcare coerces me to settle for whatever crumbs the authorities permit. Our vulnerable dependencies tend to incentivize authorities to gradually impose upon our unchosen needs . You can choose how to respond to authorities. But you cannot choose to no longer require self-efficacy . Or cease your necessity for equal treatment . Or stop your need for the dependability of others. Each time you cannot resolve such needs, you naturally suffer emotional pain. Authorities often coerce us into accepting their pain relief options as the only available option. Adversarial justice and polarizing politics induce us to settle for the winning side in a court or ballot battle. They rarely inspire us to identify and resolve all painful needs. This easily pulls us into relying upon them to ease the mounting pain they help to perpetuate. We increasingly submit to their influence. At least we don’t seek their permission to breathe, yet. Need-response Populism is in part a reaction to failing elite-led institutions. Their authority counts on the populous accepting their expertise. The less responsive to our inflexible needs , the less trust we have in their institutions. The more their impositions go against our needs, the more we understandably resist. But the more our lives depend upon their institutions, the more some of cast a blind eye to their shortcomings. We can explain away their imperfections. We could rationalize how no institution ever fully lived up to its founding purpose. We may even accept their narrative that any failings are mostly our personal fault. These authoritative powerholders rely on untested assumptions about how to impact our lives. But they do not know what they do not know. These elite influencers could use impact data that we ourselves provide to them, as condition to earning the legitimacy to impact on our lives. Reactive Problem Anankelogy distinguishes between “ascribed legitimacy” and “earned legitimacy” of authorities. Ascribed legitimacy : Arbitrary acceptance of authority prone to manipulation and coerced low responsiveness to the needs of those under that authority. Earned legitimacy : Cultivated acceptance of authority by incentivizing authority figures with impact data that evidentially demonstrates they have enabled the full resolution of subordinate needs. Contemporary norms rely heavily on ascribed legitimacy. But as the rule based international order breaks down , tolerance for mere ascribed legitimacy collapses. U.S. hypocrisy , especially in its relation with the Israeli far-right government , exposes the compounding incompetencies of authorities too removed from everyday lives to aptly empathize with those they negatively impact. Instead of actively respecting each other’s needs, uniformed authorities react to conflicts with an indulgent call to arms. On the world stage of geopolitics, this arguably bloats the military industrial complex . Weapons manufacturers benefit from forever wars , and not so much from peacetime. Uninformed authorities coerce us with fearmongering and self-serving pleas for tax revenue to “protect” national security , often without tested evidence . And always without addressing the underserved needs igniting the conflict. Big money incentives legacy media to play along. Too many of us fall in line. Metaphorically, we settle for asking their permission to breathe. In short, current authorities lack the kind of discipline that anankelogy can offer to improve their legitimacy. Responsive Solution For starters, asserting the objective fact of inflexibly unchosen needs can become a gamechanger. No longer can authorities blindly expect you to simply go along with their chosen policies. They must now recognize everyone’s impacted unchosen needs and unchosen priority . They will now be confronted with the indisputable reality that whatever they reactively resist they reflexively reinforce . Second, join us in raising the bar with mutual regard . Reject the false promises of avoidant adversarialism . Replace it with the higher standard of engaging mutuality . Join us in mutually nurturing our capacity to be more loving toward each other. Together, we cease conflating our unchosen needs with our chosen responses to them. Such moral conflation denies them earned legitimacy . To earn legitimacy, authorities must engage the unchosen needs and priorities on all sides of any conflict. This effectively brings them out of the debilitating traps of avoidant adversarialism . We level the playing field by encouraging powerful authorities to be recognized as mere fallible humans. We affirm their unchosen needs and priorities to model how they are to affirm ours. We raise the standard to social love . We affirm the legitimacy of their influence in our lives the more they demonstrably appreciate our vulnerable needs . When we say “you shall love ” we mean it. If we prove ourselves more affirming of each other’s needs, then we may assert greater legitimacy than them. Engage! Breathe freely. You don’t require anyone’s permission to breathe. Or to resolve any of your needs. And nobody needs your permission to resolve theirs. No one can bend the facts of anyone’s inflexible needs . Affirm the unchosen needs of others as you would have them affirm your unchosen needs . Hold the powerful accountable to this higher standard by lovingly refusing their coerciveness . Put love first. And if any authority refuses this higher standard, let them seek our permission for them to breathe. Responding to your needs How does this principle speak to your experience of needs? Post in our Engagement forum your thoughtful response to one of these: How will authorities react to my insistence to first affirm my unchosen need? Have you shown this works without engineering a repressive backlash? You have no idea how much pressure I’m under by the local authorities where I live. By what authority do you say I don’t need any permission from anyone to breathe? Instead of selecting one of these, post your own engagement feedback about your experience with the subject of this principle. Remember the aim is to improve our responsiveness to each other’s needs, toward their full resolution. If you’re new at posting here, first check the guide below. Engage this principle in our forum Engagement guide Any visitor to the Engagement forum can view all posts. So do keep that in mind when posting. Sign up or sign in to comment on these posts and to create your own posts. Using this platform assumes you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . 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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Glossary I < back to glossary menu improperly resolving needs (v.) To resolve one's own needs at the involuntary expense of others, negatively impacting their needs. For example, stealing their food (negatively impacting their need for food security) so you can satiate your hunger. You fully resolve your body's nutrient requirements in a way that prevents others from fully resolving their needs. Opposite to properly resolving needs . See objective evil or evil . indulgent side-taking (n. & v. ) - DEFUNCTION The defunction of choosing to support a side in some conflict against the opposing side as a way to pacify discomfort, instead of taking the disciplined approach of empathy and mutual regard to address each other’s affected needs. This shameless rush to a take side typically... overemphasizes each other's differences while disregarding common ground, relies on impersonal arguments to avoid engaging relevant specifics, resists addressing or resolving needs when easing discomfort of those needs, opposes the other side’s inflexible needs that they cannot change, called moral conflation (i.e., conflates unchosen needs with chosen responses to them), misapplies critique of moral relativism and moral neutrality , provokes the opposed side’s defensiveness to produce more of what is opposed , and self-righteously and arrogantly serves own conflict porn to win at the expense of others. Although aiming to ease pain , it usually results in more pain since it overlooks the affected needs prompting that pain (i.e., discomfort avoidance ). See premature opposition and oppo culture . This contrasts with a more disciplined approach to take a side on a contested issue, which could include a negotiated agreement on a resolution path to mutually solve the issue. The key distinction is between an intent to relieve discomfort and to resolve needs . See easement orientation and conflict orientation . See adversarialism and avoidant adversarialism . inflexible need (n. ) Another identifier of core needs, organic needs, or natural needs . Refers to unchosen needs that automatically occur in response to a diminished ability to function. Distinguishes from flexible responses to needs, which colloquially can be called a need, but anankelogy refers to as a preference or access need . E.g., I inflexibly need water when thirsty but if I say I need a bottle of water, I am more accurately saying that I prefer the water that my body requires to be provided in a bottle. Since water is the only or primary way to restore by body's fluid equilibrium, it is an inflexible need since I cannot choose anything else that would restore my fluid equilibrium as effectively. The bottle is a flexible "access need" since I could flexibly get the water I inflexibly need directly from a faucet or a glass. Distinguishing between inflexible natural needs and flexible access needs can save us from many unfortunate problems. We often falsely expect others to change their inflexible needs. We would do better to focus on flexible access needs, on how we each flexibly respond to our core inflexible needs. Otherwise, you may find that what you reactively resist you tend to reflexively reinforce . See inflexible needs . A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z < back to glossary menu