Episode 170: Social Psychology Gets an Asch-Kicking
Very Bad Wizards
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Moral Outrage Porn Can Lead to Inaction
Moral outrage porn can lead to inaction. Once you express moral outrage, you kind of feel like you're done. And i think that the similarity that it might have to these other kindslike power washing porn, i'm vicariously sensing fulfilment. My intuition is that moral outrage in the poorny sense is you're less clear that you have actually done nothing. I may have just incited somebody else to to express outrage and then do nothing. You're not actually trying to fix the problems. After you've posted on facebook, youre condemnatory thing that will only reach everybody who already agrees with you. That's a quick and easy way to get you inflamed without
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