What is the “Just-World Hypothesis”? How is this idea a bad thing?
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It’s the frame of mind that people get what’s coming to them, good people get rewarded for their good deeds, bad people get punished.
It’s bad only in that it is not an accurate statement of reality. There are plenty of situations of injustice, where good actions are punished, and bad actions are rewarded. It also oversimplifies people. There is no such thing as a truly “good person”, nor is there really a “pure evil” person, so this framework tends to draw hard lines where there really aren’t any.
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