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Originally Posted by jammies
It's innate to human nature.
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And the project of civilization is the struggle to rise above human nature. This project isn't helped when the values that have underpinned our progress - including the liberal value of judging people by their individual actions, not their group identities - are cast aside whenever they conflict with more primitive impulses.
On the subject of liberalism, the Economist is publishing an excellent series of articles on the subject. Worth reading for anyone interested in the heritage and current state of one of our society's core principals.
https://www.economist.com/open-futur...-of-liberalism