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When examined, or just because it's weird on its own.

Example: Beat a dead horse

  1. You whip a horse to go faster
  2. It dies from being whipped too much
  3. You still want the horse to go faster
  4. You continue to whip it
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[–] Steven@lemmy.studio 3 points 2 days ago

We all have experience with buying a premium product and thinking “wow, that’s nice” just like we’ve all had the experience where we bought the cheapest option and though “this is pretty good”.

The rule is as follows: “it depends”.

It’s just that our monkey brains don’t like those kinds of generalization.