Why Do We Relish Other People’s Pain?

The Writing Challenge winners merely reflect our national obsession with trauma porn.

DRM
What To Do About…Everything
4 min readOct 31, 2021

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Whether it’s someone slipping on a banana peel or a true crime tale of kidnapping and murder, Americans are enthralled with the anguish and disappointments of others.

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DRM
What To Do About…Everything

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