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"Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression have a more accurate view of reality."

"The law is not, and never has been, an instrument of private vengeance; in fact, it is the opposite. Primitive or decayed societies are governed not by criminal law but by blood-feuds and vendettas, with the resulting crude cycles of retribution. In an advanced society, by contrast, the state finds and punishes offenders on behalf of the community, and it is by limiting punishment within civilised bounds that it helps to preserve the social fabric." This is an excellent, intelligent, well-argued post. And jeez, you don't see many of them.

"The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which people who are worst at a task show the most illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average."

"It doesn't surprise me that the economic downturn has affected Woolies though. What surprises me is that it ever made money in the first place. It's always struck me as a shop that sells a baffling array of different sorts of absolute crap. It's as if the only rationale it uses when buying stock is not to get in anything good."