i swear to fuck you could state a human tendency as 50.1% vs. 49.9% and the first thing you'll get is someone in the 49.9% using themselves as obvious proof that there couldn't possibly be such a tendency
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wonder if this is amplified in the US by weird latent ideas Americans have about democracy like a conviction that if 50.1% of people do X, that means that the 50.1% are *right*, so if you're describing a tendency someone's on the less probable side of you're calling them *wrong*
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The democratic argument is "by gum, that's legitimate because this is the process we agreed to." Small step from "legitimate" to "good" - arguably even a necessary myth for social cohesion.
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