I like to think that I am not tribal because I can find common ground with anyone who shares the basic principles that underlie my humanism and liberalism & most people do, left & right, religious & non-religious, even if they don't use those terms for it.
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I consider those people tribalists because their motivation really is based on a kind of ideological purity and punishing people who dissent from it. They consider this intolerable. But I consider them intolerable. So perhaps escaping tribalism simply isn't possible.
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I wonder if this properly identifies their motivations though. Reading Baumeister’s book Evil currently. Most evil people seem to consider themselves victims/good and those they hurt to be evil. They see themselves as responding to wrongs.
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To support your point, remember that Hitler and Stalin both insisted, and probably believed, that they were standing up for the oppressed and victimized against their evil oppressors.
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Same goes for the Khmer Rouge. Individual nazis. The NK operative who bombed a South Korean airline etc. If they were genuinely evil/sadists it would be much easier to deal with them.
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