- When people I identify with do unpleasant things, it’s because circumstances have forced them to; when people I don’t identify with do unpleasant things, it’s because they’re bad people.
Living on benefits. Tax avoidance. Industrial action. Crime. War. Terrorism. Any foreign policy issue. My party’s policy. Their party’s policy. It explains all of these things and more – or rather, it explains the knee-jerk attitudes of lazy thinkers to all of these things and more. And lazy knee-jerking counts for a lot.
4 comments:
Ah, but what if I don't identify with bad people & I do identify with people under difficult circumstances? Then the statement would be entirely legitimate.
That's what they all say.
The less you know about someone the easier it is to classify them.
Yes - I've had exactly this thought too.
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