Some people seemingly spend their whole lives in a state of frothing at the mouth fury. It must get terribly exhausting...
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@PhilosophyExp You're talking about Islamists again, aren't you? Oh no, wait ...
@PaulaSKirby Well, people at any rate who would have been Islamists had they been born into a different social milieu...
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@PhilosophyExp ... the urge to control & constrain others & force them to be like us. It's in religion & totalitarianism of all flavours! -
@PaulaSKirby There's a good R. D. Laing quote. It's a little long (hang on!)...
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@PhilosophyExp I'm interested in the basic psychology that makes humans so prone to extreme self-righteousness & terrified of dissent.. -
@PaulaSKirby Indeed. I wrote a PhD thesis about that sort of thing (focussing on the In-group/Out-group dynamic).
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