[ExI] enough time has passed...

[William Flynn Wallace]

Tribal fear conditioning:  just what did you have in mind here?  It is my
belief that xenophobia is innate.  Perhaps only the directions of the fears
are determined by social conditioning.  Is that what you meant?  bill w

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 10:59 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> *>…*I believe there are paths to get to really good places but that they
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> Thanks for that, Will.
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> >…  It's not easy to turn off this tribal fear conditioning.  Will
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> Ja, it can be turned down under conditions of perfect safety.  Remove all
> threats, we are better apes.  The path to making a society more fair, open
> and accepting of others is not the soft-on-crime route, for that is
> self-defeating.  Prosecutors being soft on crime increases crime, people
> feel threatened, the better angels of our nature are told to be gone, we
> become a more fearful and distrustful society, we elect politicians who
> promise to crack down on the scary bad guy.
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> This concept is in perfect harmony with Steven Pinker’s notions, and with
> Dawkins.  I consider both those lads very insightful.
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> Watch what unfolds in the next three to five years.
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> spike
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