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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/03/2026

But the metaphor persists, because while it does not describe the behavior of frogs in a gradually worsening situation, it *absolutely* describes how *humans* respond to small, adverse changes in our environment. 11/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/03/2026

Take moral compromises: most of us set out to be good people, but reality demands small compromises to our ethics. So we make a small ethical compromise, and then before long, circumstances demand another compromise, and then another, and another, and another. 12/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/03/2026

Taken *in toto*, these compromises represent a severe fall from our personal standards, but so long as they are dripped out in slow and small increments, too often we rationalize our way into them: each one is only a *small* compromise, after all: pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/p... 13/

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