This is another common fallacious argument that I want to flag. Assholes will asshole somehow whether they live cheek-by-jowl with outgroup or on other side of planet.
Moral-hazard-of-medium is a cheap excuse for the unimaginative drive to define yourself by dehumanizing others. twitter.com/max_arbitrage/
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Yes, it’s all over, at all levels, to varying degrees
And yeah I’ve seen physical examples in the past (eg ethnic violence between neighborhoods in a city between people who even look the same and in normal times get along)
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I don’t doubt that. People act out conflict differently offline. For example cops get more trigger happy, more mass shooters, etc. There’s also compensatory self-segregation
Offline tends to gather critical mass and explode in bigger ways (riots) than endemic continuous conflict
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Offline they’d do other things like spit in your food as waiters or spread rumors behind your back or something.
The impulse is not created by the medium. The medium merely determines how it is expressed. And most media are rich enough in assholing possibilities for most people
