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.
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.