Scapegoating

Whenever you’re concerned about feeling the weight of your actions bringing you down, choose someone or a group of people to bear that burden on your behalf, and certainly against their wishes.

Scapegoating is when someone is used to absorbing your own mistakes and bad habits. You can artfully do this with multiple techniques on this list to take the edge off their defense or offense.   

It’s a surprise move that will stun your marks enough to seemingly not challenge you later. If you’ve picked the right one, nothing can harm you.

But rest assured, there’s little to no such thing as the “right one.”

–Kingston Priest

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