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First, I wanna say i've been doing my own bastardized study of goings on around these social boards.


Here's what I got:

A dude makes a thread about liking hamburgers. People comment, but most disagree and find cheeseburgers better. A catalyst comes along, in the form of a person saying the hamburger lover is a faggot, and downplays the original poster's cheeseless affections to somehow be a fault. This turns to conflict, based on a simple difference of opinion, which then manifests into a trade of wit, and then to flat out insults. This continues until one of the participants is cornered, sorta like tic tac toe, and eventually "loses."

I then thought about something as simple as not liking cheese on a burger, being equated to something as simple as a difference in skin color...which we all know can be a cause of civil unrest. Now, I don't know what this theory is called, but do you think this division and willingness to fight based on difference is taught or natural? Like maybe a sense of grouping or a pack mentality is something that comes with birth? If so, do you think intelligence could cure it, or would it take a devastating event?


Also...completely unrelated...for some reason, i've always thought you were behind spooky deep.

glad i'm not the only one..

at one point, i was absolutely sure of it. like some strange study on the effects of hostility on online group dynamics.

but who knows.

A character so completely unlike the main character wouldn't raise much suspicion

1. Well done you are on the right track: now study the principles of "in-group homogeneity" and ask your self why that doesn't always happen here...and how the in group determines who is in it....and then see why I cheer for He whose name shall not be spoken

2. I will kill you lil nigga.

Get away from me motherfucka!

Comedy is not made for you white boy

Hamburgers are named after the place Hamburg, they are not burgers made of ham.

Just some random fact I picked up and thought I'd share.

He whose name shall not be spokens a cool dude lol

but what you described happens in other aspects of life every day

schools, playgrounds, work etc

I'm well aware of that

i think baron made a good point