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We always need a bad guy

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Rob Archer
Dec 09, 2014
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Human mentality seems to always need a bad guy.

Intellectually, we know cooperation is the key to civilization, working together is the best way to get things done, peace is better than war, and understanding is better than battle. But instinctively we still need every equation to be boiled down to us vs. them, and we cannot conceive of any victory or an…

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