20 - Jillian Jordan: Victimhood and Morality
Stanford Psychology Podcast
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The Virtuous Victim Effect on Morality
When you see a victim is morally virtuous, it sort of motivates you to help that person and to punish the perpetrator who harmed them. So if i learn that eric was a victim of theft, i am going to sort of feel especially motivated to compensate him for his loss and punish the person who stole his stuff If i think he's not a very good person, maybe it doesn't seem like such an injustice,. Ah, more like he's all that deserving of these sort of justice restorative actions. And so there's actually evidence that helping a victim of wrong doing can be an even stronger signal of my moral character than punishing rator of wrong doing.
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