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People Who Cannot Escape a System Are Likely to Defend the Status Quo,
Study Finds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100816142129.htm
ScienceDaily (Aug. 18, 2010) — The freedom of emigration at will is
internationally recognized as a human right. But, in practice,
emigration is often restricted, whether by policy or by poverty. A new
study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association
for Psychological Science, finds that people who are told that their
right to emigrate will be restricted have what could be considered a
strange reaction: they respond by defending their country's system.
The researchers suspected that people who are under an oppressive
regime might try to see their situation in the best light possible.
"When you're stuck with something, one tendency is to make peace with
it and try to see it in as much of a positive light as you can," says
Kristin Laurin, who cowrote the study with Steven Shepherd and Aaron
C. Kay at the University of Waterloo. But it was also possible to have
the opposite reaction: "Other times, when you're told that you can't
have something, that makes you want it more."
In one experiment for the study, 28 Canadian women read a paragraph
about freedom of emigration from Canada. Half read a paragraph saying
that moving out of Canada would become easier in the next few years,
and the other half read a paragraph saying that this would become more
difficult. Then the women read another paragraph that described gender
inequality in Canada -- for example, that "men's starting salaries are
a full 20% higher than women's starting salaries." The women who read
that emigration would become harder were less likely to attribute that
gender inequality to a systemic problem with their country. The
researchers interpret that to mean that people who feel trapped in
their country are more likely to try to justify the country's system
and rationalize away its dissatisfactory elements.
"We focused on policies, but there are a lot of other reasons that
make it hard for people to leave. One of these is poverty," says
Laurin. "It's a depressing thought that the poor, the very people who
are put in the worst position by a particular system, might be the
ones that are the most motivated to defend that system."
Story Source:
The above story is reprinted (with editorial adaptations by
ScienceDaily staff) from materials provided by Association for
Psychological Science.
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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