... more than ridiculing those who have made a mistake doing something "cool". According to Joseph Addison, we laugh at those who have made mistakes out of "virtue ad good sense" instead of laughing at men out of "vice and folly". The assertion made by Addison is true in some cases, yet it proved wrong in others. We ridicule those who have done the "right thing ... " or those who have made a better choice. One example, is when a person might be offered an acoholic beverage and refuse. Instead of praising that person we ... than to tell it like it is, which would be that we have done a good ...

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