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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Of course I realize this; I only provided it as a reason for why a high number of people react so strongly to this one issue. I seriously doubt that even a fraction of the population recognizes that their own impulses and feelings are socially driven. For most of us, it is quite natural to expect that everyone else around me feels like I do: When you watch a terrible film, your initial thought is that everyone else in the same theatre believes it to be equally terrible.
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I like to call it the Nickleback effect. People are afraid to be outcast so they join the majority and feel safe.
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