Just because you did not think things through and just because you want to be free doesn't mean that the universe will bend its laws to protect you from any annoyance or harm you are causing to yourself or others.

We need to travel through time and consider how the evolution of our species shaped us and how this contributes to human behavior in our time. Then we need to ask: if this is normalized, what society are we creating?

Oh, interesting way to put it.

In this study they compared the role of dark traits vs light traits. As you can clearly see from this chart, dark traits had a stronger impact on how interested participations were in running and how qualified they thought they were.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Study: 'The source attribution effect: Demonstrating pernicious disagreement between ideological groups on non-divisive aphorisms', Paul H.P. Hanel et al. (2018)

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We all want to believe we are rational, critical thinkers, but how rational is it to judge statements differently depending on the source? Not very rational, if you ask me.

But it happens. And it could be happening to you and me, without us realizing it.

In another experiment, researchers used quotes by politicians. They either labeled them correctly or claimed they were said by someone from the opposite party.

Both Republicans and Democrats agreed with the statements more when labeled as quotes by someone from their party.

Researchers took lesser known Bible verses and quotes from Greek philosophers.

When the source of the quotes was missing, Christians and atheists both tended to agree with them almost equally.

When labeled as Bible verses, atheists agreed with them less, and Christians more.