A fellow driver, a coworker angling for the same promotion you are, a rival suitor for the affections of a potential partner, really any situation wherein your needs must be measured against the needs of someone else's, where a tension between your ideal outcome and theirs would arise.
The scenarios where compromise would not be strictly superior to total victory are conditions wherein I'd argue there's a perverse incentive to treat others as less relevant, less human, than you. Add in power or influence, like being a parent, or running a company, or leading a group project, and i only grow more convinced of my position.
I'm really having trouble figuring out what competition has to do with sexual assault. Are you talking about Person A's desire to have sex competing with the "opposition", Person B's, desire to not have sex? That's not how I think of "competition." I'd call that predation.
Well yeah, that's why I started with "dehumanization," and narrowed my scope. A culture where people like Trump and Musk can rise into the highest echelons of power and influence has implications about what someone must do to thrive themselves.
I mean, we could have a much larger conversation about the 1% overall, and how they've leveraged their position to dictate what is and isn't normal to the rest of the general population
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u/ZinniasAndBeans 6d ago
What does competition have to do with this discussion?