Without any actual arguments, or expectation that the pattern itself will be obvious to enough people, this post is only expected to introduce a superstition. There is no way for the reader to tell this post from other possible posts that talk about nonexistent patterns, and so its value to the readers is low to negative, especially if you factor in the anti-epistemic character of suggesting to pay attention to such posts.
I don’t think that’s the right prediction to try to apply this to. If you acknowledge it’s a spectrum, then it must be true that someone who likes some happy things might not like other happy things.
It might be more interesting to look at other things outside of personal taste that points along the spectrum correspond to, and consider what conclusions can be drawn from that. (Do “anti-nice” people correlate to those who’ve had rough lives, or those who’re imiting people who’ve had rough lives because it’s “cool”?) That might get you closer to a prediction.
Otherwise, merely observing that spectrum of taste exists is analogous to observing that there’s a spectrum of color taste that runs from red at one extreme to violet at the other.
Just personal experience.
The predictive power: people who have “pro-nice” tastes in one arena of life ought to have “pro-nice” tastes in others, and vice versa.
Without any actual arguments, or expectation that the pattern itself will be obvious to enough people, this post is only expected to introduce a superstition. There is no way for the reader to tell this post from other possible posts that talk about nonexistent patterns, and so its value to the readers is low to negative, especially if you factor in the anti-epistemic character of suggesting to pay attention to such posts.
I don’t think that’s the right prediction to try to apply this to. If you acknowledge it’s a spectrum, then it must be true that someone who likes some happy things might not like other happy things.
It might be more interesting to look at other things outside of personal taste that points along the spectrum correspond to, and consider what conclusions can be drawn from that. (Do “anti-nice” people correlate to those who’ve had rough lives, or those who’re imiting people who’ve had rough lives because it’s “cool”?) That might get you closer to a prediction.
Otherwise, merely observing that spectrum of taste exists is analogous to observing that there’s a spectrum of color taste that runs from red at one extreme to violet at the other.
Without any actual evidence, or expectation that the pattern will be obvious to enough people, this post only serves to introduce a superstition.