Experience says: Bin Laden’s body cannot be found because he is not dead at all.

Experiments say: Revenge will bring *** to people. Destroying corpses and eliminating traces can avoid providing more opportunities for Bin Laden’s followers to seek killing, revenge, worship and discussion.

Why does revenge feel so satisfying? Why do you feel the urge to go to the streets and set off firecrackers to celebrate when an enemy dies? The answer still lies in our brains, starting with game theory.

A few years ago, Tania Singer and his research team at University College London studied the famous Prisoner’s Dilemma.

The classic prisoner's dilemma is as follows: Suppose you and your criminal partner are both arrested by the police. The police imprison you separately for interrogation and provide both parties with the following same choices:

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If you report the crime of your accomplice and the other party remains silent, you will receive a light sentence and will only be sentenced to 1 year in prison, while the accused will be sentenced to 4 years in prison.

If you and your accomplice cooperate with each other and remain silent, both of you will only be sentenced to 2 years in prison.

If the two confess and report each other, they will both be sentenced to 3 years in prison.

The researchers recruited some participants, acted out the Prisoner's Dilemma plot in front of them, and observed people's reactions. The results showed that in most cases, people expressed strong condemnation of the whistleblower and considered betrayal of their associates to be shameful. Subsequently, the researchers administered electric shocks to the hands of the "prisoners" and at the same time conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) examinations of the bystanders' brains to observe the brain activity of the bystanders. The results are interesting: when the "prisoners" received electric shocks, the bystanders' brain activity in areas related to pain also increased (people always have the instinct to sympathize with others' suffering), but the activity in this part of the area that controls pain sensations gradually weakened. Because whistleblowers get punished. That is, the whistleblower's disgraceful behavior reduces others' empathy for their suffering.

Even more surprising is that only men take pleasure in the suffering of bad people. According to research data, only men's reward areas in the brain became active when they saw a whistleblower being punished. For example, the ventral striatum and the nucleus accumbens are important areas that control the brain's production of dopamine. They are also areas where sex, drugs, rock music, etc. can cause excitement. Apparently, we are hardwired to take pleasure in the punishment of those who deserve it. Scientists point out that the discovery that people's striatum activity is excited when they see an informer being punished shows that even if they cannot personally kill the criminal, justice can always bring people a sense of satisfaction.

Now back to the prisoner's dilemma, when this plot was simulated thousands of times, people found that the best strategy for a prisoner was to "retaliate with tit for tat." If the other party cooperates, he will not betray the other party first; however, if one party is provoked to think that the other party has betrayed him, he will take revenge. This finding proves that the behavior of whistleblowing itself is not encouraged, because people know that although their betrayal behavior can get a temporary light sentence, sooner or later they will be retaliated by the other party. So this would explain why people's brains (at least young people's) are wired to feel happy when bad people get their comeuppance.

John Pavlus commented on Obama’s mastery of killing bin Laden: When some bullies like “Bad Batman” are on the loose, These villains will act like demons that trouble our natural consciences, set bad examples for others, and provoke us with contemptuous behavior. Now, bin Laden has been killed, and his body has been thrown into the sea. There is no body, no pictures, no place, and nothing to provide more opportunities for Bin Laden's followers to find killings, revenge, worship, and discussions. Bin Laden's death left only a message in the newspaper. Bin Laden himself and his image have now been "killed".

Although this way of handling the situation will make Americans feel uncomfortable (perhaps seeing Bin Laden lying dead on the street will help relieve the hatred in the hearts of Americans). But this may reduce bin Laden's followers' desire for revenge and prevent the emergence of more terrorists in the future.

Just like Gandhi's famous saying: If we all retaliate with an eye for an eye, the whole world will become blind.

(An eye for eye, and soon the whole world is blind) (Go to Guoke.com)

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