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Episode 12: Why We Accept Bad Behavior
Why do good people stay silent when they see bad behavior?
Why do families excuse the child who keeps crossing the line? Why do companies protect toxic employees? Why do churches cover up abuse? Why do political parties defend conduct they once condemned? And why do we act shocked when the consequences finally arrive?
In this episode, we explore one of the most powerful—and dangerous—forces in human psychology: normalization.
Using the recent controversy surrounding Argentina as the starting point, we examine how bad behavior rarely appears overnight. Instead, it becomes accepted one small…
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