What psychological or sociological mechanisms explain why individuals engage in or socially reward behaviors that appear to have negative utility or harmful long-term outcomes?
There are a lot of subgroups of individuals that seemingly invite darkness into their own lives and lack the social determinants of health to spiral upwards out of their own situations. Many valorizing antisocial or maladaptive behaviors as "authentic".
What mechanisms prevent them seeing themselves for what they're doing in the big picture?
u/atomedge — 10 days ago