i.e. this essay should make it more possible for people to say “is this an instance of frame control?” or “I’m worried this might be, or be tantamount to, frame control” or “I myself am receiving this as frame control.”
Yeah, this sounds productive.
I guess one issue with the description given in the OP is that “frame control” seems to refer to a behavioral strategy that can sometimes be benign(!) on the one hand, and a whole package of “This means the person expresses a thoroughly bad phenotype (labelled by its most salient effects on victims)” on the other hand.
Probably it would prevent misunderstandings if there was a word for the sometimes-mostly-benign behavioral strategy (e.g., “frame control”) and a word for the claim about throughly bad phenotype (e.g., “This person is interpersonally incorrigible”).
(Or maybe one could mirror the distinction between “to manipulate” and “being a manipulator.” Most people employ manipulative strategies on rare occasions, but fewer people are deserving of the label “manipulator.”)
Yeah, this sounds productive.
I guess one issue with the description given in the OP is that “frame control” seems to refer to a behavioral strategy that can sometimes be benign(!) on the one hand, and a whole package of “This means the person expresses a thoroughly bad phenotype (labelled by its most salient effects on victims)” on the other hand.
Probably it would prevent misunderstandings if there was a word for the sometimes-mostly-benign behavioral strategy (e.g., “frame control”) and a word for the claim about throughly bad phenotype (e.g., “This person is interpersonally incorrigible”).
(Or maybe one could mirror the distinction between “to manipulate” and “being a manipulator.” Most people employ manipulative strategies on rare occasions, but fewer people are deserving of the label “manipulator.”)