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Re:"It costs about $40,000 a year for a homeless person to b... by yzhengyu on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @10:06PM (#3701463)
It is an evolutionary trade off due to how human beings instinctively handle cognitive dissonance.

It is very amusing and somewhat depressing on how the most intelligent of individuals can be reduced to a frothing reactionary if you know his/her life history and deduce their biases.

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Re:"It costs about $40,000 a year for a homeless person to b... by warpedellipsis on Friday March 16, 2012 @07:52PM (#3715848)
I can see the just world bias there, in the idea that "you should be able to afford it, tough luck if you can't". I don't see cognitive dissonance; how does that come in?
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