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Assuming we’re talking about one of my fellow Americans? Yes. He’s been conditioned to think that.
Yeah, you're probably right. I was dumbfounded.
It’s amazing how the powers that be have gotten our culture to the point that so many people give zero shits about their fellow humans. People living paycheck to paycheck on median incomes still have the “fuck you; got mine” attitude.
The worst part is that many of these people would help you if you needed it - if you were, say, in a car crash, most of these people probably would help you out. But...for some reason...extending that help to a more general sense just causes them to start frothing at the mouth.
I ride bicycles, and when I ride on Sunday mornings, I'm always amused by the thought that some drivers are probably on their way to or from church when they decide to pass me dangerously close, just for fun or to teach me a lesson or whatever the hell their justification is.
Tribalism I guess. My family, friends, town, country, etc are the good people. The others are bad.
That and bigotry. They’re basically two sides of the same coin though.
At a previous job I had, my coworkers all made less than 50k a year. Still, every single one of them was against raising the minimum wage, because "we make above minimum wage, and if this passes than we won't get a raise." It's definitely some crab bucket mentality.