Our brain is wired to notice the bad or potentially bad, as this is critical to our survival, both individually and collectively. The more shades of negativity or uncertainty we perceive, the more ability we have to protect ourselves and resolve situations before they evolve into disasters.
Compared to the bad, perceiving the good has less survival value, and so we make fewer distinctions regarding the good, assigning fewer words to it.
Humanity is obsessed with the bad.
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