I used to believe in the "just world" fallacy

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For anyone who doesn't know, the Just World Fallacy is a the false idea that the world is just, that whether immediately or eventually, good people will be rewarded and evil people punished

I used to believe in the fallacy, probably because it provided me a lot of comfort to think that if things are absolutely hellish for me right now, then things will eventually even out and I'll soon be experiencing the exact opposite of hellishness

I'm not sure when or how I made the connection, but some time in the last few weeks, I realized that all of these "protections" that supposedly prop up the Just World Fallacy (e.g. judicial systems, peoples' consciences, law and order, etc.) aren't absolutes; take away the people and all of these protections against bad and harmful things go away as well

The world is a big rock floating through space where things...just kind of happen, and there's nothing inherently good or bad about that. A hurricane or earthquake or tornado could just as easily end the life of someone as good as Mother Teresa or someone as evil as Hitler. And that kind of terrifies me

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  • Tommythecaty
    1 year ago

    Good and evil are man made constructs themselves, so you can work the rest out from there.

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  • 1234tellmethatyoulovememore
    1 year ago

    I read something somewhere that resonated with me: nature isn't good or evil, it's just careless. It cares just as much about you and me as it did Alexander the Great and the bug you crushed with your shoe without realizing it.

    But that doesn't necessarily mean we should be cruel to each other, nor any other living creature. We're all going to eventually die and be reabsorbed into the floating space rock (earth) then ultimately the universe. That's really all I want. To be reabsorbed and to have eternal sleep.

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  • Anonymous Post Author
    1 year ago

    I'm not nihilistic. I don't think there's no purpose or meaning in life. It just struck me that things are constantly happening in life regardless of whether or not we're ready. Things are constantly in flux and it's unrealistic to believe that karma or whatever you might call it will balance things out before life randomness throws it back into disarray. Life's absolutely still worth living and there's a lot of good to be found in the world, I guess I just was thrown by how fragile it is

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