It’s easy to want to believe that everything happens for a reason, but how does that affect the way we treat the people the universe has punished?
By Nicholas Hune-Brown
Hazlitt Blog
Originally published January 22, 2015
In the 1960s, a social psychologist named Melvin Lerner noticed something troubling about his colleagues. The therapists at his hospital—generally such nice, sympathetic people—seemed to be acting heartlessly towards some of their mentally ill patients, pushing and prodding them during sessions, describing the vulnerable and disturbed as shiftless manipulators. Why were these professionals, generally so kind and compassionate, treating patients as if they somehow deserved their illness?
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