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0 pointsscatters3y ago0 comments

What was the point of writing that?

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It was commensurate with your reply. What exactly is the cause and what is the effect that you think I have backwards?

You think that the authorities are creating an internal enemy to sow division. I am saying that the visceral reaction to plague is an instinctive human universal, not something that has to be cultivated.

throwawaylinux3y ago

> You think that the authorities are creating an internal enemy to sow division.

They do and have done so many times throughout history.

> I am saying that the visceral reaction to plague is an instinctive human universal, not something that has to be cultivated.

Fear is an instinctive response to many things, and that can be and is manipulated.

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throwawaylinux3y ago

It was commensurate with your reply. What exactly is the cause and what is the effect that you think I have backwards?

scattersOP3y ago

throwawaylinux3y ago

> You think that the authorities are creating an internal enemy to sow division.

They do and have done so many times throughout history.

> I am saying that the visceral reaction to plague is an instinctive human universal, not something that has to be cultivated.

Fear is an instinctive response to many things, and that can be and is manipulated.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse