Potential downsides of understanding people’s motivations to do “bad” things (however you define “bad”):
But what if actual Median Human Nature is much much worse than Narrative Human Nature (the way characters in stories behave, or folk theories of psychology)? ie most of us are much worse than we think “people” typically are?
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I think that people are about as good as the ones in Grimm‘s tales or Dostoyevski‘s or Kundera‘s novels. Many act on what they perceive as their immediate incentives while being myopic, but amazingly, substantial chunks of civilization endure and prevail.
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