Why Selfish People Love to Use Religion to Hurt People
There is a type of person who will walk into a room full of strangers, start a fight, and then tell everyone they were attacked.
They will say something offensive on purpose. They will wait for the reaction. And then they will point to that reaction as proof that they are being persecuted.
This is not random behavior. This is a strategy. And researchers have now measured it.
The Study That Changed Everything
In 2021, researcher Ekin Ok at the University of British Columbia ran six studies on people who publicly display two things at the same time: their virtue and their victimhood.
She wanted…
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