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...and I first reply that this appears true to me as a primary observation about human emotions regardless of why. But a simple depressing hypothesis is that when the Tribe is piling on someone, people have evolved not to feel as much instinctive sympathy, for obvious reasons.
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You won't find that answer sympathetic, I'd guess, because you are a very logical and principled person. Or maybe because you have nothing you feel as a Tribe in that sense. But it is how a lot of other people work, if the stories I've heard about "high school" are true.
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When a stranger gets hurricaned, they want to donate canned soup. When a non-ally gets drafted, or occupationally licensed out of a job, or when a non-ally is mocked at the lunchtable, they don't offer sympathy cards afterwards. Forget whether it makes sense -- you've seen it.
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