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"we" vs "them"... I am always surprised when I (very often though) hear/read "normal" people, generally meaning good, who think that there are two separate kin
by wott 10y ago
"we" vs "them"...
I am always surprised when I (very often though) hear/read "normal" people, generally meaning good, who think that there are two separate kinds of individuals, the "we" and the "them"; who cannot fathom that all of "us" may slide slowly or fall suddenly into the "them" category.
- kiba 10y agoJust to be clear, I thought everyone has a capacity for murder and other crimes. Fixing 'them' may also involves fixing 'us' since crimes also occur in the context of our social environment. Think of prosecutors and the police. They are driven by incentive and cognitive bias to commit gross miscarriage of justice and get away with it. In order to do that, you have to know humanity on an uncomfortably and dangerous deep level.