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argumate:

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valiantfoxdinosaur:

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hamnox:

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argumate:

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the irrational prejudice against victims of tragedies thing is age-old and appears to stem from that eternal enemy, the just-world hypothesis.

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\u201cterrible awful things happened to someone? well, what if they were bad, huh?\u201d

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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\u2019t touch things they touch, don\u2019t drink from the same well or eat from the same stores, don\u2019t listen to their ideas or imitate their habits, don\u2019t fuck them or anyone they\u2019re related to.

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That plus the Benjamin Franklin effect could in turn be where the just wold hypothesis comes from.

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heuristics! the cause of \u2013 and approximate solution to \u2013 most of our problems.

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Morality being a product of human intellectual effort you can MAKE the just world hypothesis true by declaring victims wrongful, is the thing

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