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		0815test on April 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Selective Empathy Can Chip Away at Civil Society > Reformers who seek to abolish tribalism usually find that they've simply redrawn the boundary lines and replaced one set of tribes with another. Yup: Also known as, "I can tolerate anyone except my outgroup" - https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...

speedplane on April 21, 2019 [–]

> Yup: Also known as, "I can tolerate anyone except my outgroup"

However, the definition of "outgroup" is almost entirely subject to society. It has changed dramatically in the last 500 years. If the definition of "outgroup" is so fluid, then the strict belief of tribalism doesn't have much merit.

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