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2017-03-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists

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Posted by gorb 2017-03-01 12:32|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 You are a joy and a wonder, dear gorb. I laughed in sheer delight.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-03-01 13:21|| 2017-03-01 13:21|| Front Page Top

#2 No sh*t?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-01 13:56|| 2017-03-01 13:56|| Front Page Top

#3 my pop psychology geiger counter says people get morally outraged on causes when easy binaries are presented. It makes them feel better about the insoluble problems in their own life.

eg: young man's mother has a brain operation that leaves her dependent and partially paralysed, and brain injured for the rest of her life. She is just aware enough to have a partial conversation (and not qualify for state care) but severely disabled and very taxing.

The young man cannot solve this problem, it's now his burden for life. So he gets involved in the retarded left fighting the social injustice of the world, for comradeship, for easy answers, for the illusion that he can beat unfairness, for a place to fit in when his own life is badly broken and cannot be fixed.

Posted by anon1 2017-03-01 19:19|| 2017-03-01 19:19|| Front Page Top

#4 So...simple transference as motivation, eh?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-01 23:18|| 2017-03-01 23:18|| Front Page Top

#5 i think so, skid. I've seen it happen a lot. Look at your local regressives socialist alternative etc. How many of them are broken in some way? for many it's a crutch. Then there are the older manipulators.

Posted by anon1 2017-03-01 23:52|| 2017-03-01 23:52|| Front Page Top

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