Well boys it finally happened - my gf and I had vastly different political views but i thought it was working. We just didn't talk about politics. Until it turned out she was watching msm and was becoming emotionally stressed out about a bunch of TDS fake news and resulted in claiming I have tacit support for white supremacy since I voted for Trump. So yea, slept on it and we're breaking up tonight when I get off work.
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It's fine to dislike groups, but it's bad to dislike individuals based on their affiliation with those groups.
For example, Californians are crazy. But if I meet a Californian, I'm going to reserve judgement until I know more about them as an individual.
That's retarded. Its like saying its ok to distrust Pit Bulls but you'd be happy to consider an individual pit bull on a case by case basis. What's the point of distrusting the group if it doesn't extend to the individual?
Groups and individuals differ vary a great deal, in character and behavior.
Individuals within a group are unique and can vary quite a bit from one another. Not all men are the same or all women or Americans, Europeans, whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, etc. But when you take a group as a whole, certain characteristics and behaviors become predictable.
As in, certain characteristics and behavior become predictable at the individual level.
That's not true. For example, as a group, men are taller than women. But that's not predictable at the individual level. Some women are 5' 11" and some men are 5' 5". Many individuals within ethnic, racial, or gender groups vary from the overall average and/or the norm of that group.
composition fallacy