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Originally Posted by Phang
Most people don't slip into "us versus them" views because it's a quirk of the human condition that we enjoy doing so; there's usually a "thing" that makes "us" angry, and the people doing the "thing" are "them".
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Yes but the
us and
them concept merely works as simplistic reasoning tool that happily absolves the thinker of actually
thinking.
It's not so much humans enjoying doing so, but because it's easier. Simplistic dichotomies are far easier on the mind (lynch him then all our problems will be solved!) than working out the whole problem and going about it pragmatically. If you're mugged it's far easier to conclude it's because he's from this race/nation/area/school than to work out exactly
why he mugged you and go about changing the conditions that brought about the mugging. And everyone likes a good lynching.
And didn't your mother tell you that internet melodrama is cool these days?