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by dilyevsky 1548 days ago
Don’t fool yourself - most managers would fall into Persecutor camp not the Rescuer ime.
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It is incredibly easy and ego-inflationary for people playing the persecutor role to see themselves as rescuers.
Definitely tracks with the human tendency to judge yourself by intentions, and others by actions
The wiki covers that scenario. The rescuer uses their role to say they "tried" and then justify negative feelings to the victim. Essentially becoming the persecutor