What psychological mechanism allows people to escape scrutiny when adhering to the status quo?
The Omission Bias documented by Tversky and Kahneman shows that people tend to judge harmful acts of commission more harshly than equivalent harmful acts of omission. This bias allows the status quo to evade universalizability scrutiny.
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