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0 pointsmpyne13y ago0 comments

I can see exactly what jacquesm is talking about here actually.

I think he's talking about instability as in issues with inhibition. Kind of like how people sometimes commit the stark crime of saying what you really think when drunk,

Manning might have taken an action that others merely only think about because that little part of you that says "BAD IDEA MAN" was asleep on watch at the time. If nothing else his "instability" would be consistent with his behavior at other times, before and after he joined the Army.

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dyno1234513y ago· 3 in thread

So it's just something that makes you do good things more?

mpyneOP13y ago

I would say it's something that makes you evaluate the difference between short-term and long-term good things (e.g. a policy that drives up income in the short term may wreck your business in the long term).

Or alternately, the difference between a good thing, and a good thing with collateral damage.

jacquesm13y ago

No, it is something that makes you do things that might end up with you in front of a firing squad or room&board for the rest of your life less.

dyno1234513y ago

Which could be good or bad or whatever, or a mix of both, or whatever. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

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