Why Do Good People Do Bad Things?

[@SerenityScratch]

Surprised this video doesn’t have more views. This is an excellent explanation

[@JrDrFionaChou]

Thank you! I really appreciate it~

[@TT35109]

This can be paired with the belief that you are a good person but everyone around you is “bad” but in reality, when people do that, they are just excusing their own behaviour and will refuse to do so for others even if it could be the exact same thing.

[@JrDrFionaChou]

That is a great point! Cognitive dissonance could really blind people from realizing their wrongdoings

[@Anonymous-cq2dtp]

good project

[@sk37]

Thank you for sharing!

[@JrDrFionaChou]

Thank you for watching!! I hope you learned something :)

[@calebmario-w1y]

The idea of cognitive dissonance is a behaviour that helps with social integration but can run parallel to the idea of human beings animal needing survival. In your example, "good people do bad things because our brains are trying to rationalize our actions" is to say that people who are considered good people are so because they wish to remove the cognitive dissonance associated with their actions. However, often there are a multiple of personalities, impulses and desires controlling your actions which cause "good people" to do bad things (imo). Also just some notes on your speech (not that you'd care): -having an experiment give evidence doesn't prove an idea (you said that cognitive dissonance was proven by an experiment) Also just wondering with the justification experiment, the group with less justification for the morally wrong action had more frontal brain activation, what was the hypothesis? because you would think that if it was a morally wrong action, the anterior cingulate cortex would light up equally on both sides (signifying cognitive dissonance) and then the frontal brain would light up the most for the justified group (showing the brains reduction of the cognitive dissonance). What im trying to say is that if the action-based model was right, wouldn't the less justified group have less frontal activation rather than more? I don't mind the video but there're a lot of leaps in your logic and it makes it hard to follow rigorously. E.g. an experiment's result doesn't prove a theory. It needs to be redone and tested for potential holes, inconsistencies, underlying assumptions etc. Also, not clear on how you got good people do bad things from cognitive dissonance, the link wasn't clearly established. Also, not clear on why people should use the brains desire to remove cognitive dissonance as motivation. It seems to me like the brains desire not to want to do something could be important (not that you shouldn't exercise when you don't want to, but rather to emphasise the dangers of hacking your brain and using your brains desire for peace to push you to do something. That is, sometimes doing the "right" thing requires you to do things which make you have cognitive dissonance (imo) and that the idea that there exists good people, or that "good people do bad things" is ludicrous because if they're so good why did they do it in the first place. Its their idea of themselves (their ego) of good people that drives them to do "good" things (however they're unreliably defined). The idea that they are good people in and of themselves is a statement i find to be intolerable). I think there's a lot here and I enjoyed listening and thinking about what you said. Was interested to learn about the action-based model but not convinced by the whole "brain region activating" explanations , or at least how they were communicated (probably minimally for good reason) in this video, to be honest. Thanks, from someone who's procrastinating on random videos.

[@KrishnaMIT]

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[@jaygroomes1357]

Me 2 minutes before clicking on this video: "i'll sit in my car and smoke cigarettes after a long work week if I very well please."

[@JrDrFionaChou]

Yes, cognitive dissonance is very prevalent in our life choices!

[@alexrez]

this is sick

[@JrDrFionaChou]

Thank you!