Comments on: anomalies of rational choice http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/ the unruly darlings of public sociology Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:56:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mom http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-337 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 08:27:06 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-337 Mental note to self: stop reading Jeremy.

wow.

]]> By: jeremy http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-322 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:41:07 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-322 Demographist: I couldn’t follow your link, although I see from the broken link it is about Sudan. I would not make some argument that I’m linking to the most objectively depressing thing in the news. I don’t think my own reaction has as much to do with the Internet as with the betrayal and twistedness involved. I also think I have especial reaction to stories in which a betrayal is conducted for a long time with the person being unwitting. There was this story back when I was at Indiana about a man who allegedly was so upset with his girlfriend for not returning from a cruise for this father’s funeral that he married the woman, impregnated her, let the child reach age six months or so, and then killed him. I spent a lot of time melancholic-reading about that story.

]]> By: demographist http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-321 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:14:14 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-321 No offense intended by this post, but I just don’t understand why you think this story is so incredibly depressing and horrifying. It’s an example of evil in suburban America using the latest technological means. Personally, I think
this is much more depressing. Is it because your story hasn’t become a major news headline? Or because you don’t think it could happen here? Or because it happened while using the internet?
Signed,
Legitimately curious

]]> By: jeremy http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-317 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:09:58 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-317 Mom: I saw it, and presume it’s a trolly fake.

]]> By: mom http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-316 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:55:46 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-316 If you’re watching the trainwreck, I assume you saw this.

http://meganhaditcoming.blogspot.com/

]]> By: jessiednyc http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-315 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:01:45 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-315 Sad and disturbing, indeed. I think the language fails to adequately capture many of the dynamics in this story. I see this story variously referred to as a “hoax” or “cyberbullying” or “sock puppet” but these terms seem inadequate to describing this sort of thing.

]]> By: jenniferlbridges http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-312 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:36:21 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-312 I did the exact same thing when I first read about this story a week ago. I was horrified and disgusted, but I kept seeking out more and more reports and accounts of it…

]]> By: kristina b http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-307 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:54:43 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-307 Eszter, it’s very related to your work.

Sigh. I am a total sucker and clicked away. Ugh.

]]> By: gabrielrossman http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-301 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:01:46 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-301 What pleasure is there to be found in looking at a mangled corpse, an experience which evokes revulsion? Yet wherever one is lying, people crowd around to be made sad and turn pale. They even dread seeing this in their dreams, as if someone had compelled them to look at it when awake or as if some report about the beauty of the sight had persuaded them to see it.

Augustine’s Confessions Book 10, chapter 55

]]> By: brayden http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-297 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:36:41 +0000 http://scatter.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/anomalies-of-rational-choice/#comment-297 Thanks Jeremy. After reading that myspace story, I experienced a sharp spike in cynicism.

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