RE: Does the positive side of tribalism/racism outshine the negative side?
August 12, 2020 at 11:38 am
"The ends justify the means" has only ever been tentatively true. I.e. someone lying to cover for themselves or someone else to avoid harm (the usual situational example of an abusive husband looking for their wife at a friends house and the friend lying to the husband about their whereabouts springs to mind, and the very real examples of people lying to the Gestapo covering for hidden Jews during Nazy Germany). I think this is similarly true tribalism/racism. It becomes skewed, easily, when considering the short pathway between tribalism and 'othering' people, dehumanizing them.