Why we are more attracted upon bad things.

One reason is the packaging as men are visual and are quite stimulated regardless of character or its lack. Primal urges are exerting a greater influence than our culture or we acknowledge but its there nonetheless...A sexually alluring woman is sufficient regardless of her many faults as we cannot filter past the desire... In this sense biology is mans destiny.... Or until he learns how to manage his libido and see there is more to woman than physical attraction....

what bad things?

see thro' nighties.

Cause that is what we are use to so we think it's right...

I don't what bad things you are talking about?
Bad food?
Bad people?
Bad movies?

What's with this "WE"-thing?

I am attracted to bad movies.

apparently so...but Dutoneer thinks see thru nighties are bad things....ooooppppsssssss...there goes the wardrobe...lol

from psychology today:

Another explanation comes from probability theory. In essence, negative and unusual things happen all the time in the world. In his book, Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos explains that if the news is about a small neighborhood of 500 or 5,000, then the possibility that something unusual has happened is low. Unusual things don't happen to individual people very often. That's why very local news like a neighborhood newsletters tends to have less bad news. But in a large city of 1 million, dramatic and negative incidents happen all the time. But most people watch national or worldwide media where news reports come in from large cities at a large scale, so the prevalence of negative stories increase. Add the size of social networking communication, and we expand geometrically bad news. So from evolutionary and neuro-scientific and probability perspectives, we are hard-wired to look for the dramatic and negative, and when we find

From personal observation and reading:

Many seem to desire or admire adventure, some amount of risk-taking, a measure of self-reliance and disregard for social conditioning --�� while placing greater emphasis on safety and security for themselves. That dichotomy may lead to being attracted to unconventional traits in others (or in fantasy / fiction) as a means of living vicariously.

Another possibility that occurs is that a "good" (conventional) person may think that associating with a "bad boy" could "bring them out of their shell" (or box) to experience life with a more adventuresome spirit.

This.

I'm not attracted to "bad things." I've been attracted to stupid things, or even unwise things, but never particularly bad things. Besides, what is bad to one person is very, very good to another.

Smoking is bad for us yet millions of people smoke, so why are they so attracted to it? In my opinion it's because they are addicted to it, however or why ever we started to smoke it results in our addiction, I am an exsmoker. Other things such as alchohol, gambling and drugs are all addictive in my opinion, and in the long term can be bad for us. Here in the UK, tobacco, alchohol and gambling are very much promoted in the media, particularly on TV, in the form of advertisements, perhaps this is the reason we are attracted in the first place to these things which can result in being very bad for us if taken to excess or if we become addicted, this is just my opinion.

If you mean bad girls and boys, I think its because they are perceived to be more exciting to be around even if they are also more likely to screw you over for their own happiness.

Here in Canada cigarette ads are banned on TV ,and there are many public service messages On TV about the harm that smoking and alcohol can have.
If these messages do any good or not ,I have no idea, but at least our Government is trying to educate people .

If 'good' was promoted as much as 'bad',, perhaps people would tend to be drawn to it

as it is, there is more 'bad' promoted as exciting or urgent or entertaining,, and I think people flock to excitement over boredom

and , naturally, tend to the urgent before the mundane

and seek entertainment

And they're usually super hot, too, don't forget that....

Good and bad are relative terms, what's bad to me is good to someone else and vice versa. You have people who are involved in what the outside world would consider a really ****ed up relationship, but if it makes both of them happy, it's not bad. And then you have people involved in what appears to be a normal, healthy relationship (like the one my parents had) and no one is happy, so it's bad. Most things are up to interpretation and perception.

wait, is this thread about 'things' or 'people'?

Im perplexed,,,