People do not live in a vacuum. People have different ideas and beliefs. Yet it is bizarre how people within the same belief systems can actually have such strong, violent reactions against the out-groups. There are those who preach mercy yet refuse to come to the aid of those they disagree with, even though they are overtly marching under the same banner. It is understandable if those come from an entirely different background and induce irrational xenophobia in the paranoid bunch. What is unpardonable is that they would turn upon one another like ravening dogs should they disagree on a single point. (Pardon my lack of an equivalent metaphor, my canine friends)
Such is the pain of existence: The existence of others is a pain. Yet it is so that many try to declare themselves able to tolerate the existence of others...so long as nobody thinks any differently. So much for thinly veiled hypocrisy.
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