Incentive Blindness

Most unethical behaviour is never hidden

It’s always seen and ignored

People don’t look away because they are immoral

They look away because noticing is costly

Seeing the truth can threaten status, belonging, progress

So the mind protects itself

Unethical becomes normal

Wrong becomes necessary

And silence becomes reasonable

This isn’t just weakness

It’s motivated reasoning

Sifting out truths too costly to face

ESSENCE

PERSPECTIVE

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Blurred digital illustration of a faceless woman in yellow beside an owl with falling yellow petals, on an olive green background.

EMPTINESS, 2025 BY VIKTORIA KOSINSKAYA

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Untitled, 2016 by Moonassi

Painting of a man in a dark suit seen from behind, reflected in a mirror showing only his back, not his face.

Not to Be Reproduced, 1937 by René Magritte

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Stomp, 2008 by Bill Stone

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