It’s because we’re just pattern recognition machines and a false positive is better than a false negative.
So if an act might result in a positive or avoid a negative, it’s safer to just do it anyways. Giving people who get neurotic about it enough of an evolutionary advantage that it’s still relatively normal human variation.
Maybe the environment changes to where that OCD behavior is really advantageous, then the rabbit rabbits will inherit the earth.





It all starts with a little bill call the Telecommunications act of 1996…
And yeah, loads of people said it would lead to this shit.
But Silicon valley gave a shit ton of money to the Clinton’s for the Internet part, and telecoms for the part doing away with monopoly regulations.