Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
I've read some interesting theories that suggest it's some sort of human behavior to keep group cohesion or weed out similar but different tools or ideologies so that the group acts all as one, specifically in situations where the difference between one thing and another are small to non-existant. But of course, these were the kind of petty disagreements that also sometimes started warfare, so I don't want to make it sound to nice.
Yeah, we all feel safer in a tribe, and we all secretly (or perhaps openly?) enjoy feeling outraged at perceived injustice or stupidity on the part of those not in our tribe. Hence the liberal media (and on the other end of the spectrum, Fox News). But I digress into the political, which is verboten. Mabye it's ok because it's meta-political?