OMG. Appealing to altruism is an act of suggesting future shaming – of shaming pre-shaming… That’s why it works. They tell a half truth and suggest the rest.

Some groups are just really, really, really good liars. They have weaponized lying in order to take advantage of altruism.

damn.

Gypsies and Desert Arabs: set up camp near by, remain mobile, with little or no fixed assets, and conduct raids, then return to camp.

Other groups conduct theft by redirection: incentive to break norms.

Other groups conduct theft by obscurant fraud: financialization.

Some groups conduct theft by ‘farming’ a population (statists and such)

Scary when you just reduce human behavior to productive or parasitic.