• untorquer@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      When you grow up in a rigid world you come to rely on the rules as the foundation you build your beliefs on.

      When that foundation starts to crack because it was built on unstable ground you either fight it and attempt to patch it, praying the ground will eventually settle for the last time or you accept the fault and rebuild on solid ground.

      Then if your neighbors are doing the same thing you have a community running around patching each others foundations. Many hands make light work of hate.

      It’s a question of how emotionally invested in that foundation you are. At what point does the ever increasing maintenance cost more than building new? Does the community make it cheap and easy enough that starting over seems pointless? Or does the community make starting over prohibitively expensive?

      No empathy for them here. Its just to say there is a twisted logic in it, at least for those who hold the least power in that structure. I’ll never understand the behaviors of the powerful.