Girardian Scapegoat: person or people blamed for all of society's ills, whose ritualized destruction is necessary for restored utopia.
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Replying to @drethelin
A key part of the social process of scapegoating is it bears little to no relation to plausibility. Witches ruining crops are archetypal.
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People are easily riled up to destroy anyone they don't like. This is an urge that pervades history, with all sorts of rationalizations.
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The truth is societal problems are not solved with purges. They are solved with technology, whether social or mechanical.
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Replying to @drethelin
Yes. Reproduction and death.
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