Why is it that people seem to be incapable of judging if something is good or bad directly? Instead of judging things directly, they first judge what category the thing is in, and if it is a good category, then they judge the thing to be good, and if it is a bad category then they judge the thing to be bad. For example, most people view rape of a stranger and marital rape as being comparably bad, because both are in the category of "rape", even though one would be far more traumatic for the victim than the other. And when the TV chef Paula Deen admitted that she once said the n-word after being robbed at gunpoint, this was viewed as being just as some unprovoked person using the n-word due to hatred of black people. Why do people seem to be incapable of looking past the category of the action, and instead just looking at the action itself?
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