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Sable comments on Which ideas from LW would you most like to see spread? - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: NancyLebovitz 18 May 2015 02:12PM

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Comment author: Sable 22 May 2015 06:31:02PM 2 points [-]

An idea that I think would be very helpful to people - and relatively simple to grasp - is the idea of tribalism, and how much it really motivates us, even to this day. Not just that politics is the mindkiller, but why. I think if more people were able to take a step back every once in a while and think, "Hey, I don't even care about or like this idea...why am I defending it? Because it's an idea that I think a group I consider myself a part of holds, and by attacking one idea of my tribe, it seems like you're attacking every idea of my tribe? Does this make sense?" then the world would be a much more friendly place, at least.