Procne wrote:"dey be bad. dey live der. bad tings happen der = good"
Eventually it all boils down to will to exterminate those you don't agree with / are afraid of. Literally every case of genocide in history of human kind is based on this type of thinking. But hey, all is fine as long as it's them dying and not me.
You are not that different from ISIS
I agree. This is what it boils down to. Call it by whatever name it inhabits in the place and time of your choosing. It is basic social animal in-group/out-group behavior. The biggest problem I have with it is that it is hard to argue that this behavior is not valid. The problem is probably more along the lines of that some people are born with no empathy, and they are a problem for the rest of us. How do we find them, and what do we do with them?
Hypothetical...If your wife/husband and your two children and ten other people you don't know were stuck in a house fire, who would you save first? If you answer "normally", how far will you take this favoritism?