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What are the few things that you have read academically and can correlate with observations in real life?

@Naadan_Parinda There's a concept in Psychology known as observer's bias. It states, people always observe events with their own predispositions. The inference you've made from story reminds me of that same phenomena. Don't you think the story should be inferred in this way that: the one guy who's going to get sacrificed is gen cat (1 in every 4 in our population) who is opposing the wrong tradition (reservation system) because he's the one who gets butchered every now and then in the name of "that tradition?" And others who are spared (the reserved, 3 out of 4 in population) support the tradition (reservation system) because 1) they are never going to face the burnt of it, and 2) on contrary (unlike spared villagers in the story), they are the beneficiaries of the tradition?


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