The experiment said: Revenge will bring people * * *, and destroying the corpse can avoid providing more opportunities for bin Laden's followers to seek killing, revenge, worship and discussion.
Why does the feeling of revenge feel so carefree? Why does the enemy have the impulse to set off firecrackers to celebrate when he is dead? The answer is still in our brains, starting with game theory.
A few years ago, Tania of University College London? Tania Singh and his research team studied the famous prisoner's dilemma.
The classic prisoner's dilemma is this: suppose you and your criminal partner are both arrested by the police, and the police will separate you from each other and give them the same choice:
If you report your partner's crime and the other party keeps silent, you will get a light sentence, only 1 year in prison, while the defendant will be sentenced to 4 years in prison.
If you cooperate with your partner and keep silent, both of them will only be sentenced to two years in prison.
If both confess and report to each other, they will also be sentenced to three years in prison.
The researchers recruited some participants to perform the plot of the prisoner's dilemma in front of them and observe people's reactions. The results show that in most cases, people strongly condemn informers and think it is shameful to betray their associates. Subsequently, the researchers punished the "prisoners" with electric shocks, and examined the brains of bystanders with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to observe their brain activities. The result is interesting: when the prisoner suffers from electric shock, the activity in the pain-related areas of the bystander's brain will also increase (people always have the instinct to sympathize with the pain of others), but this part of the activity to control the pain area will gradually weaken because the informant is punished. In other words, the despicable behavior of the informer reduces the sympathy of others for their suffering.
What is even more surprising is that only men are happy with the suffering of the bad guys. According to the research data, the reward area in the brain becomes active only when men see the informer being punished. For example, striatum and nucleus accumbens are important areas in the brain that control dopamine production, and they are also areas that become excited because of sex, drugs and rock music. Obviously, we are naturally glad that those who deserve it have been punished. Scientists point out that when people see the informer being punished, the striatum activity in their brains will become excited. This discovery shows that justice can always bring people satisfaction even if they can't kill criminals themselves.
Now back to the prisoner's dilemma, when this plot has been repeatedly simulated for thousands of times, people find that the best strategy as a prisoner is to "answer blows with blows." If the other party cooperates, it will not betray the other party first; However, if one party is angered and thinks that the other party has betrayed him, he will take revenge. This discovery proves that the informer himself is discouraged, because people know that although his betrayal can get a temporary light sentence, it will be retaliated by the other party sooner or later. So, this explains why people (at least young people) are happy to use their brains because of the bad guys' retribution.
John? Pavlus made the following comments on Obama's wisdom in killing bin Laden: When some bullies like "Bad Batman" are at large, these bullies will harass our conscience like demons, set a bad example for others and provoke us with contemptuous behavior. Now, bin Laden has been killed and his body has been thrown into the sea. There are no bodies, no pictures, no places, nothing, and no more opportunities for bin Laden's followers to seek killing, revenge, worship and discussion. Bin Laden's death left only one message in the newspaper. Bin Laden himself and his image have now been "killed".
Although this kind of treatment will make Americans feel uncomfortable (perhaps seeing bin Laden lying dead on the street can better understand the deep hatred of Americans). But this may reduce the desire of bin Laden's followers for revenge and avoid more terrorists in the future.
Just like Gandhi's famous saying: If we all want an eye for an eye, the whole world will become blind. An eye for an eye will soon make the whole world blind.
, Obama * * *,