Punishment can be a self-replicating meme in the following way. If you were punished for doing something fun, and this hurt you & messed up your motivation structure, you'll resent others you see "getting away with" the same behavior, and punish them, out of envy.
If you don't want to be *reminded* of what you don't have, maybe? If I never see anybody having the thing I want, I can forget that it was even an option.
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Oh dang... what if it's aversion to cognitive dissonance on a personal level, coupled with larger forces driving static memeplexes on a cultural level? D:
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So this experiment -- people did a super long boring task, & were then asked to pitch it as exciting to new "participants": https://explorable.com/cognitive-dissonance-experiment … Group A got $1; group B got $20. Afterwards, A rated task way more exciting than B did. Why?
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I can imagine some people have their minds organised in this way. Were you saying it's a natural/general tendency, or "this is a thing that sometimes happens with some kinds of people"?
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