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by SoSoRoCoCo
2049 days ago
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> under inhumane circumstances remains very popular. I recently read an article about the popularity of '/r/justiceserved' type forums (the original tagline of this subreddit was "Now with 40% more police brutality" but was changed as it became more popular). I can't for the life of me find the article, but it was a fairly ambivalent account of how this kind of forum taps into a deeply innate arousal from visceral punishment. Something that the author decides, sadly, appears to be in all of us. > lock them up and throw away the key The "empathy gap" rears its ugly head.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap |
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