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Old 12-12-2016, 07:12 PM  
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Originally Posted by woj View Post
look up the classic psychology experiment: "The Robbers Cave Experiment"...

cliff notes: 12 year old kids from similar backgrounds were split into 2 groups, within a week the 2 groups began hating each other...

so it may not be just "dumb people", it's a natural human tendency...
Agreed woj but so is violence and superstition. The reason we have the internet and chocolate cake is some smart people decided to ignore those baser instincts. It can be done, it takes the capacity to recognize why it should be done.
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