Thugs in Seattle blocked a protest march, then pepper-sprayed two people who were leaving the rally that had ended.

Underground oil leaks can put arsenic into ground water.

Prosecutor Nisman wrote an arrest warrant for President Fernández, which he hoped to execute after the president's impeachment.

A NYC thug has been indicted for stamping on the head of a man down on the sidewalk who was being handcuffed.

Many people seek the comfort of assuming that the world is just — that people all get what they deserve. People who cling to this tend to blame victims.

The just-world assumption feels great when you are privileged, because it gives you a basis to assume it's your own merit at work.

This plays a part in a new right-wing camp, the "redpill right wing". People in that camp close their eyes to the fact that others are held back by bigotry and other forms of social injustice.

Paradoxically, I have come across an exactly opposite form of bias, where people say, "Lots of other things could kill you, so there is no point in avoiding this one." They do this to rationalize dangerous practices such as smoking tobacco.

The world gives us partial control over our futures, but in areas that involve others, we can't expect complete control. Even in things that affect only us, others may control us through unjust power. There is also lots of randomness in the system: unpredictable events that could result in good or bad. This is what makes life so complicated and interesting. Each of the irrationalities mentioned above consists of ignoring one large aspect of life.