the irrational prejudice against victims of tragedies thing is age-old and appears to stem from that eternal enemy, the...
the irrational prejudice against victims of tragedies thing is age-old and appears to stem from that eternal enemy, the just-world hypothesis.
“terrible awful things happened to someone? well, what if they were bad, huh?”
Actually it stems from the eminently practical strategy of taking a look at the people who bad things seem to happen to and Noping everything related to them just in case. Don’t touch things they touch, don’t drink from the same well or eat from the same stores, don’t listen to their ideas or imitate their habits, don’t fuck them or anyone they’re related to.
That plus the Benjamin Franklin effect could in turn be where the just wold hypothesis comes from.
heuristics! the cause of – and approximate solution to – most of our problems.
Morality being a product of human intellectual effort you can MAKE the just world hypothesis true by declaring victims wrongful, is the thing