*loves* It should be a cliche by this point, but sadly it's not even majority knowledge. As long as courts still demand character witnesses and neighbours on the news act all surprised that the guy who carried their groceries for them all these years hacked five pre-schoolers to pieces, I'll have the urge to whack people over the head with this poem.
It's uncomfortable for people to realise that it is circumstance which dictates people's behaviour and not a Core of Inner Moral Strength so they just decide that it's not true.
I suspect this is because they are afraid of/in denial about what it says about themselves and their loved ones.
Very likely that is part of what makes them socially functional people, though: unlike us (I suspect? I definitely know this about me in any case.) they can live in the comfortable illusion that they are safe with an arbitrarily defined circle of people they trust.
Also it makes them more ABLE to trust people, which I guess helps with the whole social thing right up to the point where the whole social thing causes people to behave in murderous ways a la Stamford Prison experiment etc.
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Very likely that is part of what makes them socially functional people, though: unlike us (I suspect? I definitely know this about me in any case.) they can live in the comfortable illusion that they are safe with an arbitrarily defined circle of people they trust.
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