A cura di @GiMa&RNik The Dumb Duo.

Un articolo su Nautil.us descrive attraverso le parole di Robert Sapolsky le ragioni sociali ma sopratutto biologiche che spingono le persone a diffidare, fino ad odiare, gli altri; ma che forse c’è speranza di un cambiamento grazie all’aiuto della scienza:

Humans universally make Us/Them dichotomies along lines of race, ethnicity, gender, language group, religion, age, socioeconomic status, and so on. And it’s not a pretty picture. We do so with remarkable speed and neurobiological efficiency; have complex taxonomies and classifications of ways in which we denigrate Thems; do so with a versatility that ranges from the minutest of microaggression to bloodbaths of savagery; and regularly decide what is inferior about Them based on pure emotion, followed by primitive rationalizations that we mistake for rationality. Pretty depressing.

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