{"id":12705,"date":"2015-12-09T03:21:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T08:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12705"},"modified":"2015-12-09T03:21:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T08:21:28","slug":"most-violence-in-the-world-is-motivated-by-personal-morality-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/most-violence-in-the-world-is-motivated-by-personal-morality-quartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Most violence in the world is motivated by personal morality &#8211; Quartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/566579\/most-violence-in-the-world-is-motivated-by-personal-morality\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/police-from-san-bernadino.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Tage Rai, Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What motivates someone to be violent? This is a question many people are asking in the wake of the recent mass shootings in California. Most explanations tend to revolve around the core assumption that violence is wrong. If someone is violent, something must be broken in their moral psychology\u2014they are intrinsically evil, they lack self-control, they are selfish, or they fail to understand the pain they cause. However, it turns out that this fundamental assumption is mistaken&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at violence across cultures and history with my colleague Alan Fiske of the University of California, Los Angeles. We analyzed records of all kinds of violence, ranging from war to torture to genocide to homicide. While this was rather depressing work, it also led to some very interesting findings. We identified a pattern in that violence that was both predictive and explanatory. The commonality was that the primary motivations were moral. 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