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hating someone purely because they possess certain unchangeable physical characteristics is always idiotic and reprehensible

jordan bates

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Aug 5, 2017

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hating someone purely because they belong to a certain group you do not belong to is almost always idiotic and reprehensible

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Ah? Well, I suppose I agree, so long as you remember almost. At various times & places it's perfectly rational.

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right, yeah, had to include the "almost" to encompass KKK members, nazis, etc

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This entire category of behaviours is extremely rational in situations it evolved from. That said, many situations in which it doesn't fit.

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My Sami ancestors dreaded the Chuds, because they showed up to raid, rape and murder. Saxons feared my Norse ancestors, Romans the Saxons...

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I blame nobody in Syria right now if they have a fear/hatred of bearded Arabs, or Afghan minorities of Pashtos, etc. etc.

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However, what often seems to happen is that hatreds and fears transfer mostly by hearsay and cultural bigotry, rather than lived experience.

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I have an "irrational" loathing of Romani people after I was attacked by a bunch of youths and pickpocketed separately in 1 year in Prague-

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- plus several other beliggerent or malevolent encounters in the same city. I know the problems these communities suffer, and yet...

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I would never justify applying these aversions on an individual basis, or to repress or otherwise attack communities, but it's not idiotic.

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Especially, as is often the case with reprehensible groups like Jihadis and Nazis, if the ethics of their cultural group are evil.

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yeah "almost" was meant to exclude cases like hatred for groups w evil goals, tho important to be very cautious about applying "evil" label

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applying these aversions on individual basis is exactly what i'm calling idiotic tho. i got mugged by group of black dudes in amsterdam but

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if i then hated every black person i encountered in life knowing nothing about them except their skin color, i think that would be idiotic

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