We are all natural conservatives, in that bad way. We do not trust an outsider, a loner. If he is outside of our tribe, our family or our clique, he is a secret or open enemy. He is subhuman, so we can be decent to insiders, but justify any level of cruelty towards this stranger, this individual. We imagine all kinds of offenses and wrongdoings on his part, and they usually are but phantasms in our minds.
The outsider is not good or bad per se. Let us taken each one and give them the benefit of the doubt until we get to know them, and then reasonably can decide to oppose and attack him or not, or sustain him and welcome him into our midst.
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