Why Is Everyone So Angry? The Science of Outrage | Kurt Gray

And so We typecast other morally as well. in the role of either victim or perpetrator. And Th there's this like pull in our mind to see the people that we think as victims as a hundred percent victims and see people we think as perpetrators as a hundred percent perpetrators. It kind of simplifies the world, and this is like a powerful heuristic, it simplifies the world into black and white.

This is an astute observation made by our guest in this episode, and he calls it moral typecasting. It's our tendency to see people as either pure victims or pure predators with no middle ground. This black and white thinking shows up Everywhere in our lives, from personal arguments to political debates, and it blurs and distorts our ability to recognize. That most situations involve people who are Both trying to protect something. Even though they may potentially be causing harm to others in the process.

It seems that moral typecasting is not necessarily the best way to make decisions in a complex world like the one we live in. That's true. Uh the world is way more complex than our simplistic moral code. And why is that? Why is it that sort of black and white thinking isn't always good for us? Other cases where it helps us make decisions, other times when it helps us get along in the world, and at a deeper level, Are there foundational elements in our genetic code?

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