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>On Friday, December 26, 2003, at 02:51 PM, Eubulides wrote:
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>>Why, in history, are there all the various attempts by groups to privilege
>>their interpretation of reality and society at all and to impose it on
>>others? From what does this 'need' [for lack of a better term due to my
>>own limitations] come?
Because the existence of rival views is a threat to one's own; it allows room for doubt. I have suspected, not that I have any grounds for this other than a hunch, that one reason for Medieval anti-Semitism was that the very existence of people who did not accept Revealed Truth was a threat to the self-evidence of that truth. Everybody excepted The Truth except for Those People; their existence indicates that maybe it is not The Truth after all.
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