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user-inactivated · 3612 days ago · link · · parent · post: Believing that life is fair might make you a terrible person
It is called the "Just-World Hypothesis." This came up in various conversations I had in 2004 or so during the election on the main difference between a 'conservative' and a 'liberal.' If you follow a just-world viewpoint to the extreme, bad things happen to bad people and they deserve it. So you are homeless because of... reasons. (Character, you soul is dirty past life failures etc.) This is about the opposite of my outlook, but I like the conversations that pop up whenever this topic shows up in a feed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis http://psychcentral.com/encyclopedia/2009/just-world-hypothesis/