It could have been worse…

I knew there was a reason why I subscribe to the British Psychological Society research digest blog:

New research suggests that comparing a current situation with an even worse atrocity comes with a price – it desensitises our judgment of future moral violations.

That’s the conclusion of a study that examined the cost of thinking “it would have been even worse under Saddam”.

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