Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site
by vidarh on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:41PM
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It's the Just World Fallacy/Hypothesis. The belief that "you get what you deserve", good or bad. It's at the root both of a lot of hero worship and also at the root of a lot of unwillingness to help people who are struggling out of the shared belief that you must have done something to deserve where you are - good or bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis