If you feel pity for an adversary you're only giving them an infiltration route into your soul. It's not a good move.
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too many adversaries are simply outgroupers. not listening to/empathizing with the outgroup has its own problems.
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circle jerks, witch hunts, mutual defection
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Circle jerk is an insult an ingroup tells about the outgroup, defection is solely an ingroup problem, and witch-hunts ...
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circlejerk makes one ignore valuable input. defection as per prisoner's dilemma can happen between any two parties
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are often in the best interest of the ingroup, otherwise they wouldn't do them so readily.
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important to always note the pathology of uplifting the outgroup over the ingroup.
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unfortunately necessary to have to explictly point out that this pathology isnt a Christian Virtue by any means.