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Manufactured Troubles: The Mind’s Quest for Problems in Comfort
As people are asked to identify threatening or unethical things, they accurately do so. However, when these threats and unethical things are removed, individuals tend to redefine what is considered threatening and unethical to continue perceiving them. This behavior reflects how the mind tends to invent problems when faced with a life devoid of them, as individuals start defining smaller inconveniences and infractions as unbearable in increasingly comfortable circumstances.