Interesting. Victim-blaming is a defense mechanism. If I blame a rape victim for dressing as a prostitute, I can take action to ensure I don’t get raped myself (avoid dressing slutty). As an extension, calling somebody ignorant for victim-blaming is in a sense itself victim-blaming; they are just falling for the just-world fallacy. […]

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Interesting. We are more likely to like something we don’t need. We don’t need the newest iPhone, so we need to justify spending a lot of money on it and therefore rationalize to ourselves that it is better than the other phones. This would also explain why people like their kids. […]

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