The Just-World Fallacy

[madscience]

I found an interesting article about the Just-World Fallacy. Put simply, people have a tendency to convince themselves, for the sake of their egos or their own emotional security, that people deserve the good and bad things that happen to them. It's an extremely common delusion among conservatives, especially Objectivists

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[ext_260709]

Waitaminute- I thought objectivism believed in personal power and responsibility... NOT some moral judgement of deserving?

[madscience]

Objectivism claims to be about rational self-interest, but fails to acknowledge that rational self-interest is maximized by enforced collectivism, not libertarianism.

In an ideal world, libertarianism and collectivism would be equivalent; everyone would instinctively understand that collectivism is in their own best interest. Unfortunately, across all cultures and throughout history, about 5% of the population is sociopathic. It's because of that 5% that libertarianism produces nothing but social disaster.