Memories of our past are mostly associated with our family, friends and loved ones. If we remember these, the sense of belonging increases in us because of the connections. This creates a sense of security in us, which completely suppresses the feeling of need related to financial savings.
Most people strongly believe that life is fair and that everyone gets what they deserve. We were brought up in this spirit, as our parents not only taught us this, but even the fairy tale world was based on this thesis.
It has become almost encoded in us that if we do good, we will get good in return, but if we do bad, the world, Heaven, will punish us.
This is the just universal theory. This is mainly beneficial because it not only motivates us to act and live our lives according to the correct moral order, but it also encourages us to believe in good karma and fear bad karma.
This “good karma” provides security for the future and paints a picture of a manageable future.
But what if life didn’t work free businees? Or are we facing injustice?
First of all, we have questions that we definitely want to explain to ourselves. If we don’t get answers, we make our own.
The illusion of control is important to us, so we are definitely looking for connections between what happened. Since the last thing we give up is to shake our belief in a just world, we instead blame the victims of injustice for what happened.
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For example, if something is stolen from a person, we tend to stigmatize the victim, that he is to blame, that he does not pay attention to his own affairs. A more serious and dangerous form of this is victim blaming.
It often occurs to us that we classify a person of inferior status and assume that he is incapable of more, and that he is in his place for a reason. Because of the just world theory, we exclude the possibility of a person reaching this fate as a result of unfortunate events. It is good and ought to believe in a just world, but we have to accept that life is not always fair. There are sad cases for no reason, and if for those who do not believe in chance, this is absolutely out of the question.
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