Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Why is that dark?
Via Eurekalert as usual,
The study involved 184 college students who read short narratives that they were told were plots to possible television episodes. The students read 15 narratives: one-third in which the villain was treated positively by the victim; one-third in which the villain received a just punishment; and one-third in which the villain was punished over and beyond what would have been a suitable penalty for the crime. ... So the participants may have paused slightly before responding to the forgiveness stories to reflect, because they saw them as more meaningful, Grizzard said. But while they also paused for the over-punishment narratives, they did not find them more meaningful, only more enjoyable, he said. That suggests the pause may have been simply to savor the extra punishment the villain received. "It appears to be the darker side of just enjoying the vengeance," he said.Why is that the darker side? Encouraging goodness is the opposite of dark. In a non-functional Sorosian culture where BIG crimes like killing millions and ruining billions of lives are INFINITELY REWARDED while undetectable "microaggressions" are SMASHED, it's normal to want more punishment for real crimes. We have a precise sense of balance, and we understand that negative feedback (error correction) has to be larger to null out a large departure from center.
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