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Is there a human need for a certain amount of disorder?
Imagine watching a film where there is a food fight going on. There is a person who is very prim and proper and disapproving of the whole thing. You know that the person is eventually going to get hit in the face with something and what is more there is something in us that wants this to happen. Why is that?
It is well known that we need a sense of order, predictability and control in our lives. We also need a degree of novelty, but I am wondering if beyond this there is a kind of perverse need for something to occasionally go wrong, not just to others but sometimes to ourselves as well, a need for a bit of messiness and disorder, for a state of things that falls short of perfection. I am not trying to justify any kind of misbehavior, but maybe this is part of the reason why people create computer viruses.
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