That there are many problems in the world is obvious to anyone, but take comfort in the notion that eventually good prevails.
Whether your focus is on the criminal justice system or a spiritual system, realize that those who have wronged the world will eventually pay some price.
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John List was a mild-mannered, unremarkable-looking older man. The kind you saw on the street and didn't give a second thought to. One day a television show did a story on John List.Decades earlier, this unremarkable man had committed a heinous crime, murdering his family. He assumed another life and hid from his crime for decades.
Did he "get away with it" all those years? Well, he certainly wasn't in prison, but he later described the personal hell of waiting every moment for the mask to be broken and for his new
world to crumble.
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Regardless of the experiences subjects personally dealt with, whether they had personally been the victim of a crime or known someone close who had, those who believed the world is ultimately just retained a 13 percent higher level of life satisfaction.
Lipkus, Dalbert, and Siegler 1996
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