As @caroldn documents, ingroups w/power always start telling themselves it's right and good to control, punish & eventually kill outgroups.
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Nietzschean variant: send forces into rival territory, claim they're being abused, declare righteous war. Aggression in self-defense drag.
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Ethnic Russians in east Ukraine, settlers in Gaza, the USS Maine, and yeah, GamerGate. Everybody does it.
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And no, I'm not saying people are going to get hacked to death with machetes over video games. Not this decade, anyway.
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Plenty of structural factors mitigate against things blowing up that big. But...it really is the same evil, the same madness, same demons.
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People aren't going to be murdered, but they're already losing jobs. And there will be suicides. Maybe that counts.
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