Coltan Scrivner
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And that's pretty typical of a morbidly curious experience, especially one that involves bodily injuries.
That would be a good example of curiosity about what happens to the body when you engage with something dangerous, whether it's an accident or intentional result of violence.
That's the bodily injuries interest.
And this one's interesting, too, because
I think there are actually multiple pressures on interest in bodily injuries.
I think that's one of them.
You get a good taste of like, OK, how dangerous is this thing I'm doing?
What are the consequences of it?
The other thing is it gives you in the case of something dangerous, like a predator or a dangerous person.
If you see a crime scene, for example, of a break in.
If you see what happened to the body, it gives you a pretty good indication of how dangerous that person or that predator is.
If you're walking through the forest, you come across a body and it's got like a few cuts on it, but nothing really major, you're not going to be that concerned.
You're like, man, what happened to this person?
You might call the police, of course, but you're not going to be too concerned about your own safety.
You're walking through the forest and you come across somebody whose head is missing.
you're gonna immediately be more concerned, right?
You're gonna be more afraid.
Why is that, right?
Why would you be more afraid?
Both people are dead.