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The key piece of the strategy I'm exploring is exactly to undermine the logic of the scapegoat by not taking ALL the responsibility of the problem on your shoulders. It is, after all, only a part of you that can identify with the scapegoat. And since you're not the only one - the person doing the scapegoating was talking about some "other people" in the first place - you're at most part of the problem. As soon as we temper things with proportions like that, the sadistic impulse loses power.