Note how said transference easily shifts onto the father. It's not the girl's fault she relates poorly to her parents, it's her parents' fault they relate poorly to her. Some have gone as far as to call the father a "child". But with the implication that he not be absolved of the responsibility in the same manner afforded to the daughter. So he is not genuinely equated with a child. I guess my question is; if the peanut gallery is strong enough to relate better to the daughter, why aren't they strong enough to relate better to the father? You know, follow your own suggestions and be sympathetic to his plight, talk it over and try to see eye-to-eye. Say "I understand you are upset at your daughter's facebook post, but..." Instead of "The dad is a total ass."
It shows how easy it is to rally a bunch of ignorant people behind a self-destructive cause. It also shows the efficacy of a higher standard for belief and the possible harm that arises from weak epistemic methodology.
Of interest; wood-burning smoke is more harmful to you than cigarette smoke and has similar addictive and pleasure-producing toxins that mask its detrimental effects on our health. PSA you know. Also check out Sam Harris: The Fireplace Delusion from The Moral Landscape.
For context however, Psychologists have historically considered the adaptivity of different organizational approaches on a scale with integrative organization on top and second to that is positive compartmentalization of self that shifts into integrative organization upon being primed with negative attributions. Below that is positive compartmentalization of self that shifts into negative compartmentalization upon being primed with negative attributions. On the maladapted extreme reside those who are primarily negative compartmentalists who only become integrative or positive when primed with positive attributions. This scale appears to be based in what is most "adaptive" for the individual psyche and doesn't seem to map perfectly onto the adaptivity of a gathering. What is adaptive in reducing stress for the individual may increase stress for other individuals or for the group.
I wonder how this relates to different self-organization practices, difference importance and difference-avoidance strategies. It is possible people who are "engaged workaholics" are so because they operate within a positive compartmentalization of self while at work, and outside of work they experience too many negative primers that trigger a maladaptive negative compartmentalization of self. This would be the opposite of an integrative organization of the self which is adaptive to positive as well as negative primers. It is a general strategy of positive self comparmentalization that the individual clings to domains within which they receive the most positive primers and thereby boost their self-esteem, and for people to simultaneously avoid domains which contain too many negative primers. The "engaged workaholic" may simply find more positive primers in their work environment, whereas their home environment may trigger depressive states by priming negative attributes of self. In otherwise, they may be maladapted in another part of their life, but are ego-engaged at work to buffer them from the rest of their lives.
This is where the terms "Identity theft" and "Mistaken identity" have their application.