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It's very common for people who do or support terrible things to also be nice to their neighbors, or more generally to be nice to the people they can identify w
by apical_dendrite 2y ago
It's very common for people who do or support terrible things to also be nice to their neighbors, or more generally to be nice to the people they can identify with and know on a personal level. They just don't see the people that they can't identify with as fully human and worthy of the same dignity.
This is not to say that your neighbors are evil people - I'm just saying that you can't just judge people by how they interact with people in their in-group.
- jorvi 2y ago"The true measure of a man is most evident in how he treats those who can do him neither good nor ill."
- _heimdall 2y agoI don't actually think I would have fallen into the "in-group" for most of my neighbors over the years. In most cases I've had pretty wildly different political and religious views, and for a period was myself an immigrant that could hardly speak the local language. My honest view is that people individually and in small groups are surprisingly friendly, helpful, and welcoming. Its only when the community or group gets too big and people start defining teams that things get nasty.