So, I would prejudice against someone with a rat tail, mohawk or goth attire without any negative feelings towards them, it just seems obvious to me that a person with that kind of attire lives a certain kind of way. — Judaka
I thought you understood this based on our discussions in the consistency of the criticism against the alt-right thread, people think in these kinds of ways and it's unavoidable. — Judaka
Er ... I meant ALL prejudices are basically just types of phobia underneath — I like sushi
if someone is sexist they may act in this manner to ‘fit in’ knowing that they’ll not be accepted if they voice their disagreement. It becomes acceptable and even though there is fear of not being socially accepted it is not entirely an irrational fear. — I like sushi
I would say that it intially stems for fear though because we’re naturally fearful of unknown for obvious reasons. In a social space I would say that this basic survival mechanism is often misplaced and therefore irrational; in part at least. — I like sushi
Man as a slave to nature as long as he merely felt it; he became its sovereign once he began to think it. What had previously ruled over him as force is now the object of his judging gaze.
... Fear only has a place where ponderous and shapeless mass rules, its indistinct outlines shifting between insecure boundaries; man has the advantage over any terror in nature once he knows how to lend it form, and transform it into his object.
Friedrich Schiller, “On the Aesthetic Education of Man” - 25th Letter
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