Chapter 20. Motivation: Justice
Whether you think a kid deserves his black eye because he started the fight, or that the second kid is guilty for punching him, or that both kids were equally guilty, that’s Justice.
Justice
The feeling that people should get what they deserve.
Everyone believes they deserve to be liked, even though most of us can be assholes from time to time. We all agree that Hitler was an “evil” leader rather than just a leader. And we all love to see underdogs win.
Justice is our emotional need for balance in the force.
The most interesting thing about Justice is that it only applies to the other motivations. If Person A has caused Person B to suffer a loss in one of the 13 motivations, we want Person A to suffer the same loss (or something equal). If Person A makes us happy by giving us gains in one of the other motivations, we feel like we owe them some recognition somehow.
On the other hand, if one kid beats up another kid, that might not seem fair to us as observers. But, if we then learn that he was fighting back against a bully, the feeling changes. If we find out the bully was falsely accused, it changes again. Morality is often a matter of perspective, which is probably why philosophers like to argue about it so much.
As a UX Designer
Have rules of conduct, or symbols of respect and honor, or give users the power to choose champions—like Twitter manners, Reddit Gold or Reddiquette, Kickstarter campaigns, or American Idol.
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