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[Badweather]

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.