Server and ForumQuest Explained By Article from The Atlantic

[heartbrand]

Excerpt taken from: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...e-stop/309525/

Wright, Robert. "Why Can't We All Just Get Along" The Atlantic Oct. 2013: 108-17. Print.

"In fact, Greene’s own book suggests they wouldn’t. Notwithstanding its central argument, it includes lots of evidence that often the source of human conflict isn’t different moral systems but rather a kind of naturally unbalanced perspective. He cites a study in which Israelis and Arabs watched the same media coverage of the 1982 Beirut massacre and both groups concluded that the coverage was biased against their side. Any suspicion that this discrepancy was grounded in distinctive Jewish or Arab or Muslim values is deflated by another finding he cites, from the classic 1954 study in which Princeton and Dartmouth students, after watching a particularly rough Princeton-Dartmouth football game, reached sharply different conclusions about which side had played dirtier. Was the problem here a yawning gap between the value systems prevailing at Princeton and Dartmouth in the 1950s? Maybe a mint-julep-versus-gin-and-tonic thing?

No, the problem was that both groups consisted of human beings. As such, they suffered from a deep bias—a tendency to overestimate their team’s virtue, magnify their grievances, and do the reverse with their rivals. This bias seems to have been built into our species by natural selection—at least, that’s the consensus among evolutionary psychologists."

"This is the way the brain works: you forget your sins (or never recognize them in the first place) and remember your grievances."

"As a result, the antagonisms confronting you may seem mysterious, and you may be tempted to attribute them to an alien value system. Indeed, this temptation may itself be part of our built-in equipment for making our rivals’ positions seem groundless."

"When you combine judgment that’s naturally biased with the belief that wrongdoers deserve to suffer, you wind up with situations like two people sharing the conviction that the other one deserves to suffer. Or two groups sharing that conviction. And the rest is history. Rwanda’s Hutus and Tutsis, thanks to their common humanity, shared the intuition that bad people should suffer; they just disagreed—thanks to their common humanity—about which group was bad."

Good read if you check out the whole article, and does a great job of showing the Everyone vs. Nihilum mentality on forums, and explains how people like Dullah can truly believe the stuff they type.

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[Hateraid]

http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...47#post1236547

[runlvlzero]

I am perfect.

[heartbrand]

While I knew everyone would say tl;dr, and the actual article is very long, if someone truly takes the time to read it, it's an incredibly interesting read that completely changed the way I look @ so called "islamic extremism" etc.

[Retti_]

ur an islamic extremist?

reported

[Danger]

نحن جميعا بحاجة إلى أن تقدم إلى الله

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxzTYKj93tk

heartbrand is al Mahdi

[Something'Witty]

Great article, would read again, and is very applicable to the various factions on the server / forums.

[Nizzarr]

Originally Posted by heartbrand [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Excerpt taken from: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...e-stop/309525/

Wright, Robert. "Why Can't We All Just Get Along" The Atlantic Oct. 2013: 108-17. Print.

"In fact, Greene’s own book suggests they wouldn’t. Notwithstanding its central argument, it includes lots of evidence that often the source of human conflict isn’t different moral systems but rather a kind of naturally unbalanced perspective. He cites a study in which Israelis and Arabs watched the same media coverage of the 1982 Beirut massacre and both groups concluded that the coverage was biased against their side. Any suspicion that this discrepancy was grounded in distinctive Jewish or Arab or Muslim values is deflated by another finding he cites, from the classic 1954 study in which Princeton and Dartmouth students, after watching a particularly rough Princeton-Dartmouth football game, reached sharply different conclusions about which side had played dirtier. Was the problem here a yawning gap between the value systems prevailing at Princeton and Dartmouth in the 1950s? Maybe a mint-julep-versus-gin-and-tonic thing?

No, the problem was that both groups consisted of human beings. As such, they suffered from a deep bias—a tendency to overestimate their team’s virtue, magnify their grievances, and do the reverse with their rivals. This bias seems to have been built into our species by natural selection—at least, that’s the consensus among evolutionary psychologists."

"This is the way the brain works: you forget your sins (or never recognize them in the first place) and remember your grievances."

"As a result, the antagonisms confronting you may seem mysterious, and you may be tempted to attribute them to an alien value system. Indeed, this temptation may itself be part of our built-in equipment for making our rivals’ positions seem groundless."

"When you combine judgment that’s naturally biased with the belief that wrongdoers deserve to suffer, you wind up with situations like two people sharing the conviction that the other one deserves to suffer. Or two groups sharing that conviction. And the rest is history. Rwanda’s Hutus and Tutsis, thanks to their common humanity, shared the intuition that bad people should suffer; they just disagreed—thanks to their common humanity—about which group was bad."

Good read if you check out the whole article, and does a great job of showing the Everyone vs. Nihilum mentality on forums, and explains how people like Dullah can truly believe the stuff they type.

Pretty funny you link an article on judging people differently, proceed to judge people at the end of his thread