Posted by:
Dr. No
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Date: July 30, 2020 01:01PM
Elder Berry Wrote:
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> Not within some religious peoples and many other
> countries. Shared beliefs promote kindness.
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These folks would agree with you
https://psyarxiv.com/ak642/Accompanied by some diagrams
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S1364661318300172-gr3.jpgIf look to our own experience, the tendency to immediately categorize a stranger into friend/foe (age, sex, race, class) is reflexive, not even conscious. "Value of beliefs" in the diagram is actually the vmPFC (particular to humans, interestingly). So goes the theory, we are genetically programmed to select for a "like, friendly" group - could be theorized it's a product of evolutionary biology/psychology, as those who grouped with friendlies survived to reproduce. Safety in numbers. Since humans do language, and language is the foundation of thought, so we can (perhaps unfortunately) think, a further friend/foe categorization is value system: do we think alike.
So what friction there is, seems in the boundaries between groups (or, when these become large enough, within groups - religions, political parties fracture all the time)
The biological foundation is why it is so hard to educate people into tolerance and acceptance.
Education can at best produce a cognitive scaffolding to govern responses, but does not cancel the biological impulse.
Or at least that's the theory.
Hypothesize the current global mean-ness divide centers on how to navigate the world: evidence vs. belief.