Belarus hits Europe at its Achilles heel: human rights morality

Affective blackmail: a very classic human perversion.

It is a pressure which is exerted by the threat, but a threat of a particular kind.

A manipulation with asymmetrical arguments: "Obey my demands, otherwise you will suffer emotional disasters."

Disparity and dissonance of the propositions.

We balance the emotional attachment to demand something of a completely different nature.

In other words, feeling, which has nothing of a merchant, becomes an object of bargaining.

Emotional blackmail assumes that the blackmailer is well aware of his victim's weaknesses.

Otherwise the threat will have the effect of a flute tune.

We easily manipulate a very sensitive, a worried, a tender being, who will become a designated victim.

The two characteristics of this manipulation, which is as outrageous as it is frequent, are therefore both the asymmetry of the arguments and the proven weakness of the victim.

International relations bring together very unequal powers, and in this situation,

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