And that’s how you set yourself up for failure and become part of the problem
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How does doing that make me part of the problem of tribal hatred?
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Because you’ll fail to live up to those standards and decide that a certain kind of person (like me) is to blame for instance 🙂
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The standards aren't so high as you're implying; I'm saying that if you've got control of your faculties and can spare the bit of effort in that moment, you shouldn't mistreat people because for whatever reason you've got an unexplained, visceral dislike for them
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I follow your theory, I just think it's mostly unfounded; you're supposing it's true. So I'd like you to try to draw a coherent, likely line from doing what I describe to empowering tribal hatreds... I don't think you'll actually find one.
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Sure, that's definitely a (self-)hazardous behavior. But does it really justify the idea that modulating your unexplained, visceral dislike for people so that you don't treat them unfairly... leads to tribal hatreds?
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No doubt that kind of case is out of the scope of what I'm saying-- if someone is abusing you, you may have a very justified dislike or hatred for them, and can act on it accordingly. I'm not sure it bears on that "unexplained, visceral dislike for someone".
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Of course, I don't think that's controversial at all.
I don't think me or Venk mentioned that kind of dislike though. I think in every tweet in the convo I tried to clarify "unexplained, visceral" dislike.
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I’m fine with unexplained, visceral dislike too. Drop, disengage, unfriend, unfollow, move on. On the receiving end, don’t obsess over being disliked either. A certain fraction of people are just going to dislike you.

