Moral Outrage Isn't Justice. It's Pleasure With a Good Alibi
Getting outraged at wrongdoing feels like virtue. But when punishment brings more pleasure than repair, morality stops protecting anyone and starts running the person who's outraged.
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Getting outraged at wrongdoing feels like virtue. But when punishment brings more pleasure than repair, morality stops protecting anyone and starts running the person who's outraged.
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We fall for the logical error of believing a fact is valid because enough people back it. It's the fallacy called argumentum ad populum: if everyone says it, it must be true.
An old tycoon with no heirs offered his employees shares worth four years of pay, then offered to buy them back for 12 days' wages. Almost all of them sold. This isn't a success story; it's a social autopsy of the 95%.
When your harvest finally comes in big, the world rushes to slap a label on you: selfish. Nobody cares about the process, or how many times you had to choose between paying a bill and buying seed.
The real entrepreneur eats his lunch cold. No long weekends, no holidays. He carries the stress of five, ten or fifty families on his back while the people who benefit complain that the AC isn't cold enough.
From birth, they're taught that fitting in means surviving. Keep up with the times, ride the wave or drown, follow the trend, be "relevant" right now. It's a brilliant lie, and it turns people into fleas looking for a dog to carry them.
Everyone wants the final photo, but nobody can stand the smell of blood on the claws. We've been tamed into believing success is a magic event reserved for the "chosen," while the rest of us settle for scraps. You were told you're a spectator, and you believed it.
We're taught that individual gain comes second to the common good. Another lie to keep the machine running on your energy.
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