What is the “Just-World Hypothesis”? How is this idea a bad thing?

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What is the “Just-World Hypothesis”? How is this idea a bad thing?

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The Just World Hypothesis is simply, if your actions are good upon the world, the world will be kind to you in kind (and vice versa).

It’s a bad mindset because it’s not how the world works, and if you do good deeds expecting good deeds in turn and they don’t show up, you’ll be disillusioned.

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