Humans sometimes seek exposure rather than defend fragile selves

Evidence

Human beings are not always and everywhere on the defensive. They are not always and everywhere preoccupied with the protection of their fragile selves. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 931

Categorization

• XREF: Directly qualifies the reader’s framing that anonymity weaponizes detachment — evidence that the observing self is not inevitably a shield but can be a play-space. — connects to: People at either status extreme adopt new behaviors more readily than the middle — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 177