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Rationally Speaking #235 - Tage Rai on "Why people think their violence is morally justified"

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The Other Leading Theories to Explain Violence

In the literature on just aggression generally, the sorts of explanations that you find for why someone would hurt or kill another person are that they didn't feel the right emotions. We don't really have a lot of work on the other side of the equation: What makes you want to be violent in the first place? And then the question becomes, I think, if you sort of shift your perspective towards seeing violence as not about moral failure, but actually about moral activity, moral performance, how does that change the relationships between violence and various kinds of psychological processes like dehumanization, like self-control, like, you know, rationality?

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