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5 reasons why people will always blame the victim of a crime, not criminals
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You probably consider yourself a fair and capable of compassion, a man, is not it? But at the same time while watching television programs on victims of crime you often mentally say to yourself: "He fell for crooks - well, one must be such an idiot!" Or "raped her, of course - got on a short skirt and went to evening walk, no wonder! ". Why do people tend to blame the victims of their crimes, and not criminals? First of all ... 1. ... People subconsciously believe that victims deserve their stradaniyNeveroyatno strong desire present in virtually every human being - the thirst for justice and the desire to solve problems. In many ways, this is what motivates humanity to progress - scientists create new drugs, saving countless lives, are developing ways to solve various everyday problems and the podobnoe.Obratnaya side of such laudable aspirations - If a person does not know how to deal with the problem, the suppression pulse leads to the fact that he begins to consider the current situation normal and fair. During some experiments it was found out that when a man shows how unfamiliar party hit an electric shock, the first thing he had - compassion and the desire to rid the stranger from pangs. If after that the observer reported that torture is impossible to stop, he began to look for the reasons for which the victim of such electricity may be worth stradaniy.Pochemu is this happening? The vast majority of the people consider themselves to be, let it sound a bit pompous, part of a larger human family. People are convinced that they are not self-centered, that in each of them there is an innate sense of justice, which in the case of what will make them turn into a super hero and rush to the aid of those who suffer. When it comes down to it, it turns out, it's easier to convince yourself that everything happened quite naturally and are to blame for the suffering that they have had to endure. way the news does not give an objective picture of terrible accidents, because as you know ... 2. ... The news should be simple and odnoznachnymiNovosti long ceased to be a means of informing the public about its public debt and about important things happening in the country and the world. Now the news editors, print and online resources focused on simple but important for people stories. Why publish and to broadcast serious, but boring details, for example, explaining the essence of the country's economic problems? After all, you can improve the rating TV programs and the number of clicks on the page of the resource (and therefore profits), talking about something interesting, and does not require thinking! < news - not about what's really going on, it tells the story of affecting any sphere of life of the audience. Remember the stories about "the pensioner Lyudmila Petrovna, who became a victim of fraud" - are very fond of releasing federal channels, preferring not to mention that among the causes of these stories are not only trusting hypothetical "Lyudmila Petrovna," but the holes in our legislation, as well as often unsatisfactory work of law enforcement organov.Est another problem, which is that ...
3. ... any colorful history is perceived as pokazatelnayaLyudi smart - they believe only the "broad objective research" and "statistics". Remember the statistics spoke of Mark Twain: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." But statistics on how some other time, now - about an impudent lie, or rather how we are self-deluding and other skill that a person polzuyutsya.Chtoby create any impression, it is enough to tell a colorful and detailed history, even if it is contrary to the general state of affairs. The human brain is designed so that individual incidents are for people much more important than a faceless intangible trend. The story told with a lot of details and names of the heroes remembered much better than a dozen are no outstanding cases with anonymous actors . Drawing attention to the colorful example, a person begins to consider it one of many, even if the story - the exception rather than pravilo.Ochen often this happens with rape victims. In the public mind formed an opinion that many women are able to stipulate a man, accusing him of abuse, though this happens, of course, much less than the real iznasilovaniya.Konechno, you could argue that not all and not are always in conflict on the side of the aggressor, but it occurs less frequently than we would like, as ... 4. ... People are instinctively cruel to the victims of There is a psychological phenomenon of blaming the victim - this is often not just a statement: "It is his own fault that his head have thrust two bullets!", But something more subtle and elusive. Sometimes blaming the victim looks like: "She could behave differently - if I were in her place, what exactly would this not allowed!». < People tend to overestimate their strength and capabilities. Let's say that you, walking down the street, you see that someone has got in an accident, you probably want something like: "I bought a luxury car and the right, and drive is not able to, so I would not have blundered at this moment", if the wheel broken the car was a girl, there are thoughts about the monkey with granatoy.V the same time, finding themselves in a similar situation, you will immediately find a million reasons why otherwise could not have been, and still is not your fault - that's a sign that you have not seen iz for solar flare, there is a neighbor of the traffic did not include a turn signal, and here the road is covered with ice and in general: "It was a hard time, I'm tired and I could not keep track of everything in the world" Referring to one study, while watching video sexual harassment of women in the post-soiskatelnitsy by the male employer, most study participants believed that the victim itself provoked the man to sexual violence. When the participants suggested to imagine yourself in the place of the heroine movie, they suddenly began to feel righteous anger against the "lascivious monster", realizing the horror of the situation unfortunate victim who is forced to endure harassment, to get coveted vakansiyu.Poka we see the situation from the outside, not an example the role of the victim, we are always unconsciously identify ourselves with someone who demonstrates the power, because ... 5. ... Everyone loves nasilieNazovite important film rights to the classic happy endami that because everyone likes? It's true - the evil is sure to be destroyed or at least punished. So it is in life: punish the guilty - one of the most popular "methods of solving problems». To re-killer, and at the same time to show everyone what happens to these geeks need to get him to rot in solitary confinement for years that way twenty, is not it? But think about it - not it be better not to make criminals suffer after committing the crime and prevent the commission of new offenses? Experience shows that staying in our prisons are often not re-educates prisoners and forces them to re-embark on a slippery slope of thefts, murders and narkotorgovli.Konechno, it does not mean you have to throw open the cell doors remain nobody plant even for the most serious crimes - all this says about the imperfection of our penal system. But if the company (and employees of FSIN - such as members of society, as we are) not interested in re-education of the marginalized, both in their punishment, so ... Everyone just wants to know that he had committed a crime, the person inevitably dooms itself on many years of suffering. < When a person utters the phrase "the end justifies the means", it is always (always!) means that he is looking for an excuse brutality or another impartial behavior. World history shows that heinous crimes are often committed in the name of the highest motives - whether something purely personal, but always "good" purposes, the care of the public interest (which are "above all") or, say, the desire to "teach the true religion of the infidels." All this suggests that the causes of, by and large, does not matter - just like the violence of humanity.
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You probably consider yourself a fair and capable of compassion, a man, is not it? But at the same time while watching television programs on victims of crime you often mentally say to yourself: "He fell for crooks - well, one must be such an idiot!" Or "raped her, of course - got on a short skirt and went to evening walk, no wonder! ". Why do people tend to blame the victims of their crimes, and not criminals? First of all ... 1. ... People subconsciously believe that victims deserve their stradaniyNeveroyatno strong desire present in virtually every human being - the thirst for justice and the desire to solve problems. In many ways, this is what motivates humanity to progress - scientists create new drugs, saving countless lives, are developing ways to solve various everyday problems and the podobnoe.Obratnaya side of such laudable aspirations - If a person does not know how to deal with the problem, the suppression pulse leads to the fact that he begins to consider the current situation normal and fair. During some experiments it was found out that when a man shows how unfamiliar party hit an electric shock, the first thing he had - compassion and the desire to rid the stranger from pangs. If after that the observer reported that torture is impossible to stop, he began to look for the reasons for which the victim of such electricity may be worth stradaniy.Pochemu is this happening? The vast majority of the people consider themselves to be, let it sound a bit pompous, part of a larger human family. People are convinced that they are not self-centered, that in each of them there is an innate sense of justice, which in the case of what will make them turn into a super hero and rush to the aid of those who suffer. When it comes down to it, it turns out, it's easier to convince yourself that everything happened quite naturally and are to blame for the suffering that they have had to endure. way the news does not give an objective picture of terrible accidents, because as you know ... 2. ... The news should be simple and odnoznachnymiNovosti long ceased to be a means of informing the public about its public debt and about important things happening in the country and the world. Now the news editors, print and online resources focused on simple but important for people stories. Why publish and to broadcast serious, but boring details, for example, explaining the essence of the country's economic problems? After all, you can improve the rating TV programs and the number of clicks on the page of the resource (and therefore profits), talking about something interesting, and does not require thinking! < news - not about what's really going on, it tells the story of affecting any sphere of life of the audience. Remember the stories about "the pensioner Lyudmila Petrovna, who became a victim of fraud" - are very fond of releasing federal channels, preferring not to mention that among the causes of these stories are not only trusting hypothetical "Lyudmila Petrovna," but the holes in our legislation, as well as often unsatisfactory work of law enforcement organov.Est another problem, which is that ...
3. ... any colorful history is perceived as pokazatelnayaLyudi smart - they believe only the "broad objective research" and "statistics". Remember the statistics spoke of Mark Twain: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." But statistics on how some other time, now - about an impudent lie, or rather how we are self-deluding and other skill that a person polzuyutsya.Chtoby create any impression, it is enough to tell a colorful and detailed history, even if it is contrary to the general state of affairs. The human brain is designed so that individual incidents are for people much more important than a faceless intangible trend. The story told with a lot of details and names of the heroes remembered much better than a dozen are no outstanding cases with anonymous actors . Drawing attention to the colorful example, a person begins to consider it one of many, even if the story - the exception rather than pravilo.Ochen often this happens with rape victims. In the public mind formed an opinion that many women are able to stipulate a man, accusing him of abuse, though this happens, of course, much less than the real iznasilovaniya.Konechno, you could argue that not all and not are always in conflict on the side of the aggressor, but it occurs less frequently than we would like, as ... 4. ... People are instinctively cruel to the victims of There is a psychological phenomenon of blaming the victim - this is often not just a statement: "It is his own fault that his head have thrust two bullets!", But something more subtle and elusive. Sometimes blaming the victim looks like: "She could behave differently - if I were in her place, what exactly would this not allowed!». < People tend to overestimate their strength and capabilities. Let's say that you, walking down the street, you see that someone has got in an accident, you probably want something like: "I bought a luxury car and the right, and drive is not able to, so I would not have blundered at this moment", if the wheel broken the car was a girl, there are thoughts about the monkey with granatoy.V the same time, finding themselves in a similar situation, you will immediately find a million reasons why otherwise could not have been, and still is not your fault - that's a sign that you have not seen iz for solar flare, there is a neighbor of the traffic did not include a turn signal, and here the road is covered with ice and in general: "It was a hard time, I'm tired and I could not keep track of everything in the world" Referring to one study, while watching video sexual harassment of women in the post-soiskatelnitsy by the male employer, most study participants believed that the victim itself provoked the man to sexual violence. When the participants suggested to imagine yourself in the place of the heroine movie, they suddenly began to feel righteous anger against the "lascivious monster", realizing the horror of the situation unfortunate victim who is forced to endure harassment, to get coveted vakansiyu.Poka we see the situation from the outside, not an example the role of the victim, we are always unconsciously identify ourselves with someone who demonstrates the power, because ... 5. ... Everyone loves nasilieNazovite important film rights to the classic happy endami that because everyone likes? It's true - the evil is sure to be destroyed or at least punished. So it is in life: punish the guilty - one of the most popular "methods of solving problems». To re-killer, and at the same time to show everyone what happens to these geeks need to get him to rot in solitary confinement for years that way twenty, is not it? But think about it - not it be better not to make criminals suffer after committing the crime and prevent the commission of new offenses? Experience shows that staying in our prisons are often not re-educates prisoners and forces them to re-embark on a slippery slope of thefts, murders and narkotorgovli.Konechno, it does not mean you have to throw open the cell doors remain nobody plant even for the most serious crimes - all this says about the imperfection of our penal system. But if the company (and employees of FSIN - such as members of society, as we are) not interested in re-education of the marginalized, both in their punishment, so ... Everyone just wants to know that he had committed a crime, the person inevitably dooms itself on many years of suffering. < When a person utters the phrase "the end justifies the means", it is always (always!) means that he is looking for an excuse brutality or another impartial behavior. World history shows that heinous crimes are often committed in the name of the highest motives - whether something purely personal, but always "good" purposes, the care of the public interest (which are "above all") or, say, the desire to "teach the true religion of the infidels." All this suggests that the causes of, by and large, does not matter - just like the violence of humanity.
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